632 Continuation of Observations [Nov. 



Jelalabad tope, depicted in Masson's Plate XIII. vol. iii. Fig. 1, is 

 as yet unique, and is of particular interest, from the style of the 

 obverse. The king is here seen mounted on a Grecian or Roman 

 war-chariot, drawn by two horses, and driven by an auriga of dimi- 

 nutive proportions. The execution is very perfect, with the exception 

 of the exaggeration of the principal figure. The inscription is quite 

 perfect, bAciaetc OOhmO KAa*ichc, and on the reverse, in Pehlevi 

 llEln+l^u+lTl^f u. . v "UlT<JiN , -|pH'"1 , EN > -11U as nearly as can be made 

 out by a careful collation of the three coins. I cannot attempt to 

 interpret this long inscription, but the commencement seems to be 

 Malakdo Kadiapas. . . . The symbols are the same as usual, and the 

 perfect preservation of this beautiful coin enables us to note the 

 flames playing on the shoulders of the monarch similar to those on 

 the effigy of Athro in the last plate, and to those on the image of 

 Buddha dug up by Dr. Gerard at Cabul, (see Plate XXVI. vol. III.) 



I have hitherto been unable to determine the meaning of the 

 bull reverse. The next two figures (4, 5,) of the present plate remove 

 this difficulty. They are both gold coins of the Ventura collection ; 

 on the obverse, the titles rao nano rao and korano are visible ; and in 

 the area of fig. 4, what appears to be the Sanscrit syllable xj ; only we 

 know that the Sanscrit of that ancient period was of a different form. 

 But the reverse of these is what we should particularly notice, because 

 the word OKPO, (in one coin written downwards, in the other upwards,) 

 mai'ks the bull and his priest as dedicated to the solar worship, and 

 not to Siva of the Brahmanical creed. 



The next gold coin, No. 6, requires no particular notice, nor does 

 fig. 8, on which the simple title PAO, seems to designate a young 

 prince ; but the three following, also of General Ventura's superb 

 collection, must arrest us for a moment. 



The name on the obverse of these is OHPKI, the same as on the Md- 

 nikydla small gold coins : on the reverse, fig. 7 shews us the two radical 

 emblems united, Nanaia and Okro, on the same coin, with the four- 



racters resembling MO. (OOHMO.) On the reverse is a naked youth, on 

 whose head are traces of a turban or cap, (berretta,) and an inscription in Persian 

 characters of the ancient Pehlvi (caratteri Persiani de WAntico Pehlvi). Honig- 

 berger states, that he has other medals of this same king, hitherto unknown to 

 history and numismatics. Another medal in gold, which the same traveller left 

 with an amateur of antiquities at St. Petersburgh, shews the entire figure of a 

 similar king, armed from head to foot ; and in the inscription, which is well pre- 

 served, the Greek characters B and O are legible. On the reverse is a man, 

 clothed, with a horned animal before him. The epigraph on this is likewise in 

 the ancient Pehlvi character." 



