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des astres avec les sons de sa lyre dont les rayons du soleil forment les 

 cordes*." 



The object in the hand of our Nanaia, fig. 7, Plate XXV., is not how- 

 ever a musical instrument, but rather a flower, or perhaps the mirror 

 appertaining to Venus. 



The larger gold coin from Manikyala has apparently an expanded 

 form of the same name : it is read MANAOBArO in page 316, but from 

 the similarity of M and N in the corrupted Greek of the period in ques- 

 tion, I entertain little doubt that the correct reading is NANAO (for 

 vavaia), with some affix or epithet BA or BArO or BAaO, which could 

 only he made out by one acquainted with the Zend language. 



On the other hand the horns of the moon projecting from the shoulders 

 of this figure, assimilate it strongly to a drawing in Hyde's Rel. Vet. Pers. 

 p. 1 14, of Malach-baal, to which also the last four letters of the inserip- 

 tionbearsome resemblance. Malach-baal or rex-baal is only another name 

 for the sun. Those who incline to the latter interpretation will of course 

 class this reverse with those of HAIOC, to which I shall presently advert. 

 A remarkable variation from the genuine Greek reading occurs in one of 

 the specimens published by Colonel Tod in the Transactions Roy. 



As. Soc. vol. i. plate xii. fig. 14, on a coin of PAO KA {v-npKi). 



The word nanaia here appears under the disguise of NANAO, and this is 

 an important accession to our knowledge, both as shewing that the 

 Greek name corresponded to the vernacular, and as proving from the 

 Zend termination in do the link with the Sanscrit andyasa. 



The second type of the Kanerkou reverse represents a male figure, 

 dressed in a frock, trowsers, and boots : he is in a graceful attitude, 

 facing the left, with the right arm uplifted and the left a-kimbo. He has 

 a turban and a glory, which is in some instances radiated. 



The designation on the higher class of this type is uniformly HaIOC 

 the sun, and there can be no doubt therefore concerning its nature : 

 moreover in the subsequent series, wherein the Greek language is sus- 

 pended and the letters only retained, a corresponding change is ob- 

 served in the title, while the same dress of the * regent of the sun' is 

 preserved, and enables us to identify him. 



The Romans and Greeks, as we learn from Hyde, always dressed 

 Mithra in the costume of a Persian king : thus on various sculptures in- 

 scribed Deo Mithrd Persarum, " visitur Mithra seu Sol, figura humana 

 Regis Persici qui subijit taurum eumque calcat necatquef." This very 



* Religions de l'Antirruite" du Dr. Creuzer, par Guigniaut, ii. 731. 

 *r Historia Religionis veterum Persarum, 112. — The expression of Lucian's in 

 Deorum Consilio, is also thus rendered by Guigniaut: — " Ce Mithras qui vtltu de 

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