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have now reason to think I must have omitted a letter, having then 

 engraved the name Aaea<j>0P0T- The two new drawings, one 

 by M. Court, the other by Masson, (both agreeing perfectly,) from 

 which the present engraving has been taken, leave no doubt of the 

 correct reading being siiaatpiot aikaiot aaea*ot tot BASiAEns, 

 ' Spalyrius the just, brother of the king.' The first letter may 

 possibly be an E, or it may be superfluous, and the name be read 

 Palyrius, but the t on the right hand of the coin is too distinct to 

 permit Mr. Masson's reading of the name Aaea$OPTQt> or my 

 former reading bAsiaehs NIKATOPQ2 Aaea*OPOt. It is a very 

 curious circumstance that the prerogative of coining should thus 

 have been delegated to a brother, and we have unfortunately no 

 further means of ascertaining who this indulgent sovereign may have 

 been, further than he probably belonged to the numerous dynasty of 

 Azos and the " great king." 



On the reverse we have either Hercules with his club, or more pro- 

 bably, from the attitude, a musician playing on a kind of guitar. The 

 Pehlevi is very distinct on three sides, and in conformity with the Greek 

 on their parallels, the word for '• king" is wanting. It would doubt- 

 less have been found in the lower compartment. The remainder, bor- 

 rowing two first letters from Masson, reads T , u1lp'-| r }i v P9u>£ TIJ 1 ^! 

 (»i9). All that can be certainly extracted hence is that *p9uj£, as 

 before noticed, is equivalent to aikaiot. The name is unintel- 

 ligible, and the word for brother, Ulafarmo, approaches to no fra- 

 ternal etymon with which we are acquainted, unless the first letter 

 be % d, with a vowel mark, which would express something like the 

 Greek itself, delpharmo ,/ 



Fig. 7. Here again our author's labours of 1835 have enabled 

 him to clear up one of our doubtful names (PI. XXI. fig. 6,) and to 

 correct his own reading of last year, (see page 25,) where he supposed 

 it to be itaahpkOT. From the native legend I had supposed the 

 word might be read Ulidizou. The real name and title is now 

 made out from six very distinct samples sent to Mr. Masson from 

 Munderaur of Lughmdn, which were in excellent preservation, having 

 still upon them the lime cement which had been used in depositing 

 them in some tomb. It runs thus; BAr_iA€WNBAi:IAEUJc MerAADT 

 in AAI PILOT, a name which betrays a kind of patronymic affinity to 

 the last mentioned Spalyrius ; while in the style of coin there is also 

 a remarkable similarity. The divinity on the reverse is, however, a 

 Jupiter in his celestial chair. The native legend is easily brought to 

 agree with the Greek, through the facile mutation of letters of ac- 

 knowledged similarity ; thus the % u, must be a f\ p ; and the *1 di must 



