268 Note on the Indo-Scythic Coins of Beghrdm. [May, 



II luiflrlih-fi'h aink-i/ftuTt Jzuthrf.(?ujl ifaiaiL^-fth , L. qnulf[i% U. qiupb'iuftu 'inL^tuJi : 

 J-»t_ u/hrnfi (ft"h *fr«*S CL,«y | » jiijj'blfaju ajbtjufhlfliTi . oufbr^-ph i^y^ujhl^uilfujii 

 Jh-^friuVb ' t^umh-fjii \\nuiiTuian.uij t '/f (B^/* 1 mi- "A ft . i. qq.wb&u h-p^nuj Jh-^jlrhfiijb 

 uji-uin J-ar/ntftruti ' '^ litH-kr" °p- ""l""""- \j , k^'lf\3'-lP' W.'j Payjili • mkqJto£i 



^m'b.f.y^ •* " Saint Gregory and the king (Tiridates) broke down 

 the golden images of the Anahitic deity, and reduced the temple to 

 utter ruin, having divested it of the gold and silver belonging to it. 

 Thence they crossed the river Goyle, and demolished the Nanniatic 

 temple, dedicated to the daughter of Aramazd, in the village of Thiln. 

 The treasure contained in these two temples being collected, were 

 appropriated to the sacred purposes of the church of God, to whom 

 the spots were also consecrated." 



By the authority of this ancient historian, a philosophical inquirer 

 will be convinced of the similarity of the characters of Anaitis and 

 Nanaia, and of the difference of their names. It is true that they 

 were both the daughters of Zevs or Aramazd ; but an identity of their 

 persons cannot be inferred from this relative circumstance. The 

 progeny of the father of the gods is supposed to be nearly as numer- 

 ous as the offspring of the late lascivious monarch of Persia, and it is 

 highly probable that Anaitis or Anaid, and Nanaia or Nancea were 

 distinct deities. This probability is borne out by the fact of there 

 having existed in Armenia two distinct temples, in which these two 

 goddesses were respectively worshipped by our pagan ancestors, 

 under distinct appellations. 



* This is an extract from the historical work of Agathangelus, who is the 

 oldest Armenian historian, being Secretary to the king Tiridates, and having 

 flourished in Armenia in the beginning of the fourth century. Anahitic is 

 a literal translation of {±y«>$uiwliufb » and Nanaiatic is exactly rendered for 

 ^ulht^tuliufb^ both used in the text adjectively. The derivative particle If^f 



attached to QWS^« and < \ i «'^4r u '» is equivalent to the English particle tic ; for 

 example, Asia, Asiatic, Ganges, Gangetic, 8{c. 



Note. — Mr. Avdall was not aware that Dr. Swiney had pointed out the 

 coincidence of Nanaia with the Nanma of Maccabees. This fact I added to 

 my paper among the addenda of 1834. The name I afterwards found in 

 Herbelot's Bibliotheque Orientale, (folio edition,) so that the identity that I 

 had ventured to anticipate with the Anahid or Anais of Persia, and the An&yasd 

 devi of Col. Wilford, was then considered to be perfectly established. Mr. 

 Avdall's note was elicited by Mr. Masson's conjectures as to the inscription 

 at Bamyan, referring to the same deity. In Plate VI. of the April number, 

 his sketch of the supposed characters is given ; but I can hardly yet feel assured 

 of their being letters. — Ed. 



