356 Lassen on the History traced [No. 100. 



As the native name does not recall elements of Persian or 

 Indian words, we shall by no means attempt to obtrude a bar- 

 barian husband on the noble Agathokleia. 



§5. 

 Continuation — regarding the names of Kings, not Greeks. 



I now pass to the coins of Kings, not Greeks, to complete the 

 native alphabet, and to advance our knowledge of the language 

 from their legends. 



Azilises presents a new symbol. As. T. rv. pi. xxni. 

 No. 27- No. 28. R. R. II. No. 20. T, almost like an e; the 

 Greek denotes the same by an s. We have already another s, 

 Vj which we take for sh, and will discover a third/!. We 

 must therefore choose z or s for either of them. Besides, it is 

 possible, that s in Azilises is substituted in the Greek transla- 

 tion for a k' (tsch) ^, as this sound was not original in the Greek, 

 and was adopted as rZ, at a later period only. It is therefore 

 a mere arbitrary reading, when I take conjecturally for our 20th 

 letter T, as z. 



The Parthian king Vonones, has the Greek legend, B ASI AE- 

 Q2 BA2IAEQN MErAAOY ONONOY.* This follows from 

 the coins R. R. II. No. 10, No. 11, I. No. 20, where, according 

 to the native legend, however, not MErAAOY, but AIKAIOY 

 must have been written ; for we observe upon the reverse still 

 ■p^wt, as also in As. J. IV. pi. xxi. No. 5. Though we do 

 not know yet any copy, exhibiting the entire title, we can con- 

 fidently construe it by comparison. The reverses also give us 

 nothing but fragments of the native legends ; we must, how- 

 ever, have recourse to them to obtain the name. R. R. II. No. 

 10 has il over the right arm of Jupiter, and the letter, next 

 following, seems to be a disfigured *P ; it then would be go the 

 end of Mahdrdgo ; for the succeeding illegible word has five cha- 

 racters, and is therefore "PiHUn rdgdrdgd. It would be indeed 

 singular, had great preceded the other titles. But it appears 



* The Arsakides-coins also combine both titles, as those that are attri- 

 buted to the twelfth (of those kings) or Phraates in, Eckhel in, 528. 



BA2IAEQ2 BAEIAEQN AP2AK0Y MErAAOY AIKAIOY 

 OEOY EYriATOPOS 0IAEAAHN02. 



