1840.] from Bactrian and Indo.Scythian coins. 747 



however, improbable, as it is stated, that the Yuetchis took 

 afterwards possession of this country likewise.* > 



Now leaving the Szus for the present, we will recur to them, 

 when in the progress of our research we have to consider the 

 countries south of the Caucasus. 



The Ansi, having their abode to the west of the Yuetchis, 

 were a powerful nation with many towns ; they had gold and 

 silver coins, bearing on the obverse the image of the king, on 

 the reverse a male figure. When a king died, his successor 

 struck new coins. The Ansi wrote on hides, in horizontal lines 

 (not in vertical, as the Chinese), carried on an extensive trade, 

 and had conquered many countries. f De Guignes justly com- 

 pares the constant type of the more ancient coins of the 

 Arsacides with the portrait of the king, and the reverse of a 

 Parthian bending a bow. 



But how to explain the fact, that the Chinese term the same 

 people Yuetchis, while the Greeks call them Tochares. Who are 

 the Tahias ? who the Ousuns ? De Guignes, with whom I agree, 

 holds the latter as the Asiani ; they may have given kings 

 to the Yuetchis, in the same manner as so many Turkish hordes 

 stood afterwards under the dominion of the successors of Gengis 

 Khan. The Tahias are taken for the Dahes, the Aaat, and the 

 Yuetchis on their irruption into Sogdiana must have indeed met 

 with tribes of this people. J When it is said, however, that the 

 Yuetchis conquered all the countries of the Tahias, the Dahes had 

 either spread themselves over Bactria to the southward, or the 

 name of the country first conquered was transferred to those 

 afterwards subjugated. 



The name Tochares afterwards occurs with the Chinese under 

 the form Thuholo, as they could not otherwise express it.§ We 

 still recognize Tocharestan, which has received the name from 

 them. But it need not be the same people ; the Tochares of our 



* De Guign. p. 27. Hyacinth in Ritter's " Erdkunde" VII. 682. etc. 



t De Guign. p. 28. 



X According to Strabo XL Scyth. § 2. Kai tCov Aawv oi fxlv TTpoaayO" 



pEvovrai' Anapvoiy ol 3£,Hav0iot, oi be, Tli(T(FOvpoi, 



§ Neumann. Asiat. Studien. I, 179. y 



