1840.] Lieut* Cunningham on Bactrian coins. 883 



A third specimen of the coins of this prince exists in Captain Hay's 

 collection, of which he has kindly sent me impressions. The horseman 

 on his coin is moving to the right, and the Grecian legend I am un- 

 able to read even plausibly, some of the letters being rubbed, and two 

 or three lost by a chip in the sealing-wax impression ; the legend how- 

 ever differs entirely from that of the coins just described, while the 

 Bactrian Pali legend agrees in every single letter with the legend deci- 

 phered above. 



Two other coins of this prince, in the collection of Dr. Chapman, of 

 the 16th Lancers, are, through his kindness, now lying before me. 

 One of them is like Captain Hay's coin, and has the horseman to the 

 right, but neither of them is so perfect as the worse coin of the two 

 engraved ; and they lend but little assistance towards reading the 

 Grecian legend: one of them has lAEY ... DY BA2IAEIUN, 

 which agrees with the inscriptions of the engraved coins ; and tends 

 to confirm the correctness of my reading of lAEYB HPDYfor 

 EAEY9EPI0Y. The Bactrian Pali legends give no more than the 

 name of the prince and of his father. The only doubtful letter in the 

 name is the third. On No, 10 this letter is b ; being almost the same 

 as our own numeral for five ; and this same figure is on Captain Hay's 

 coin. On one of Dr. Chapman's coins however the third letter is 6 ; 

 being the same as the last, reversed, but on the other coin it is J ; 

 which last is probably the same as the first, much straightened, and 

 precisely what I should suppose would be the written form of the first ; 

 the reversed form may easily have occurred from the neglect of the en- 

 graver ; this reduces all these forms to the first b ; and this character 

 must therefore have the value of the Greek F, for there is no appear- 

 ance of any compounded "i / in it. If I am right in the value which I 

 have assigned to this letter b or J as g, then must the initial letter of 

 the legend on the coins of Kadaphes Zathus, 3 be gh, for it is formed 

 upon the same principle as the kh. On one of Dr. Chapman's coins 

 the second letter H is inflected with the vowel a, which therefore 

 makes the second syllable of the name a long one, Abdgasa. 



On the two coins which have the horseman turned to the right, the 

 monograms of the reverse differ from those shown in the plate. To 

 the left of the figure is a square monogram similar to that which is 

 seen on the coin of Undopherras, No. 8 ; and to the right is a character 



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