1834.] the Coins and Relics of the Mdnikyula Tope. 448 



The alteration to which I allude, is the omission of the Greek title 

 BACiaetc BACiAEnN. and the substitution of pao nano pao, or simply 

 PAO. That such was the case may be proved from numerous coins 

 in Mr. Masson's plates ; I have however endeavoured to make the 

 transition still plainer by placing together in Plate XXV, drawings of 

 the coins which I imagine to be thus allied. Figures 7 and 8, are 

 from very perfect specimens of the genuine Kanerkos coin in copper, 

 the first sent me by Keramat Ali, the second by Dr. Gerard : while 

 figures 10 and 11, are from other equally well preserved coins in my 

 own enriched cabinet. The devices will at once be pronounced to be 

 identical. 



Of the legend on the first two coins I need add nothing to what has 

 been before said : of the others, I have collected, to the right hand of 

 figure 10, the various readings extant, and, beginning on the right 

 hand, we find as before stated paok a .... nhpki, which I suppose to 

 be equivalent to paatXevs Karnpnov*; the break between Ka and NHPKI 

 seeming to have been merely caused by the want of space below the de- 

 vice, while the dots between the A and the N may be intended to denote 

 their immediate connection. 



If we now turn to the Kadphises group in Plate XXVI. we find 

 precisely the same change of designation, at the foot of the plate on 

 the right-hand side, where for the sake of saving space, the terminating 

 words only of the Greek inscription are engraved. 



The first part of the full inscription on the elder type of these coins, 

 both the large and the small, is correctly given by Mr. Masson, as BACI 

 A€VC BAClA€o>N CwTHPMErAcf. The name kaa*ichC is itself not very 

 distinct in any of the ten coins whence my inscriptions are copied, but 

 coupled with Mr. Masson's authority, it may be fully relied on. The 

 intervening letters are more uncertain : the various readings are oox, 

 OKMO, OOKMO, OOHN, OOMO. The two omicrons cannot well be intended 



* We have no authority for writing it navripKos, since it always occurs with the 

 genitive termination ov, although united to Pao-iXevs in the nominative. 



f Mr. Masson's Memoir is so full on the subject of the Kadphises coins that 

 I have not thought necessary to add any thing thereto. I may here however 

 point out that the portion of Colonel Tod's bull and raja coin, which Schlegel 

 could make nothing of (As. Res. xvii. 579), has been successfully developed by 

 the more perfect specimens now obtained. What the Professor decyphered as 

 IHPNI€IC and €AOBirPIC are evidently (supplying the two first letters of saviour) 

 ffwTHPMErAC KAA*ICHC. Schlegel considered the name to be of a Tartar 

 Khan, or lndo-Scythian prince. Colonel Tod however leaned to a Parthian 

 origin, whilst the Bactrian kingdom was subject to Parthian kings ; this view seems 

 the most probable from several considerations, such as the fire-altar, the costume, 

 and the Peh'evi inscriptions. 

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