664 Lassen on the History traced [No. 103. 



figures crown the king, who stands between them, and leans on 

 a club. On the native legend are only the initial letters of 



Mahdrdjo discernible, and of the name, T> rtlA; the three 



middle letters should be, according to Mr. Prinsep n'll; ac- 

 cording to the coin, however, this is hardly clear.* 



There is a third equestrian coin, on which a figure of indis- 

 tinct shape delivers to the horseman a diadem. Greek legend 

 effaced. On the reverse, according to Mr. Prinsep, a Caduceus ; 

 the name indistinguishable ; we can only read Mahdrdjo. ^ 



Of the following king, we know but the name of his brother ; 

 and even with this clue, his era has not been ascertained. It is 

 Spaliryos, likewise represented as a horseman. The reverse 

 seems to have been much disfigured; the well known type of 

 Hercules seated. The legends are above described.! 



On account of the similarity of the name, we place after him 

 Spalirisos, with Tartarian Kaftan, and a palm over his left 

 shoulder. The reverse is apparently a disfigured form of Jupi- 

 ter,§ seated, as occurring on the coins of Hermaios. This 

 king appears to have reigned in Laghman, and perhaps also in 

 some neighbouring districts. 



As these last mentioned sovereigns still preserve the relics of 

 Grecian art, so also Vonones, who belongs to this class as being 

 a horseman. 



The king on horseback, with depressed lance. Legend, 

 BA2IAEQ2 BA2IAEQN MEFAAOY ONQNOY. Reverse, 

 Jupiter, clad in the pallium, leaning on the sceptre, in the right 

 hand the thunderbolt. || On the reverse, a Victory without wings, 

 in the left hand a palm, in the right something indistinguish- 



♦ As. Trans. V. pi. XXXV. No. 5. from the Punjab. The position 

 of the horseman is quite the same with the Parthian Artaban III. 



t As. Trans. V. pi. XXXV. No. 15. pi. XLVI. No. 14. V. XXXV. 

 perhaps belongs too, to this king. 



X See As. Trans. IV. pi. XXI. No. 9. V. pi. XXXV. No. 6. R. R. II. 

 No. 9. From the Punjab and Beghram. R. R. II. p. 26. As. Trans. V. 

 p. 551. 



§ R. R. I. No. 21. As. Trans. V. pi. XXXV. No. 7. IV. pi. XXI. No. 7, 

 six specimens from Manderor in Laghman. As. Trans. V. p. 551. 



11 R, R. II. No. 10. 



