1840.] from Badrian and Indo- Scythian coins, 665 



able.* The same Greek legend; the native one has been 

 already mentioned. 



Lastly, Hercules, the lion^s skin in the left hand, the club 

 on his arm, crowning himself with the right ; reverse, Minerva, 

 viKr}(j>6pog, with a helmet ; on her left hand the shield, and holding 

 on her right hand a winged Victory.f According to the native 

 legend, the word AlKAIOY must have occurred here instead of 

 MEFAAOY 



I think I have already proved, that the name Vonones cannot 

 have occurred in native characters on the reverse of these coins, 

 but probably the name Volagases ; and further, that this Vono- 

 nes need not have been, according to the coins, a predecessor 

 of Azes. On comparison with other Parthian coins, it is 

 likewise evident, that Vonones, in striking coins for his Cabulian 

 subjects, followed the coinage of Cabul, and not of the Parthians. 

 To trace the period of Vonones from coins, purely Parthian, 

 would therefore be fallacious. 



Another fact to determine the era of Vonones offers itself in 

 the following. The initial letter of the Parthian coin, above 

 described, is M. The Roman Victory on this coin, renders it 

 necessary to assign to this king a later period than to Vonones I. 

 who first of the Arsacides adopted this type. J This also leads 

 to Meherdates, who was educated in Rome, and the initials of 

 the name are more like ME than MO ; but this does not decide 

 the question, whether it were Vonones the First or the Second. 



As we have now to admit among the sovereigns of Cabul, not 

 Greeks, but Parthians also, who probably reigned after Azes, (on 

 this hereafter), so a dynasty succeeded the great Indo-Scythian, 

 which assumed the Soter- title of the Greeks. As Azes does not 

 bear this title, they are probably not his descendants. 



First, a nameless king, a horseman like Azes, with the legend 

 [BASIAEYS] BA2IAEYQN (sic) CQTH[P] the name is 

 effaced. The reverse presents a male figure walking, with the 

 left hand extended ; in the right an elevated spear, with a pecu- 



* R. R. II. No. 14. of the coin. As. Trans. IV. pi. XXI. No. 15. I do not 

 venture to trace the reverse. 



t R. R. II. p. 30. I. No. 20. A8. Trans. IV. pi. XXI. No. 10.. 

 I Visconti Iconogr. III. 146. 



