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Reverse^ Victory with a palm in her left hand ', in the right a 

 trident ; native legend, Mahdrdjo rdjdrdjo mahato, Ajiliso.^ 



The same obverse, with the reverse of the humped bull, and 

 with the same legends. f 



Azilises therefore claims Cabul and the country on the 

 Indus to the sea, and if he were another king than Azes, as 

 I think he was, he must have been his successor, on account of 

 the exact correspondence in their coins. 



It is, however, of far greater importance, to determine the 

 period of those kings. 



The coins of Azes are so closely connected with Greek 

 types, that he must undoubtedly be a proximate successor of 

 the Greek kings and their dominion. J Kadphises and the 

 Kanerkis are at a greater distance. Kadaphes alone pretends 

 to have conquered the empire of Hermaios ; and yet, this Kada- 

 phes must have lived, according to the coins, at a later period 

 than Azes. But if then Hermaios reigned about the year 120 

 B. c, Kadaphes must be of almost the same period ; Azes 

 would be, on this supposition, an earlier successor to the other 

 Grecian thrones ; he preceded Kadaphes therefore, and must be 

 considered as a cotemporary of Hermaios. We shall hereafter 

 state, to what conclusion the examination of the historic ac- 

 counts must lead us. As to the matter in hand, M. Raoul- 

 Rochette maintains, that the Minerva type of Azes was 

 imitated after that of Vonones ; for as the titles and the mona- 

 grams on the coins of both kings correspond with each other, 

 Azes must be taken for the successor of Vonones. § 



If I be allowed to object to the opinion of so solid as cholar, 

 I venture the following remarks : — 



First, the connexion between both of them being ascertained, 

 why does it follow, that Vonones preceded Azes ? Certainly 

 neither from the execution of the coins, nor from the historic 

 accounts, would he do so. The Indo-Scythians decidedly reigned 



* R. R. II. No. 20. As. Trans. IV. pi. XXIII. No. 27. 

 t At the same place. No. 28. 

 t R. R. II. p. 47, p. 41. 

 § R. R. II. p. 30, 41. 



