1840.] from Bactrian and Indo- Scythian coins. 359 



be "PTTd^, Balahazo, as the Indian v is not different in pronun- 

 ciation from b. 



This result will be surprising, and I should hesitate in com- 

 municating it, unless it appeared a very natural consequence. 

 But how to explain the matter. 



Of the Parthian language we know nothing, and he that likes, 

 may think Vonones to be synonymous in the Parthian with 

 Valahazo ; or he may also obtain a really Indian word by writ- 

 ing only Valahdsa, viz. he who contemns power. I shall choose 

 an interpretation less ingenious, but indeed based on better 

 historical authority. 



Volagases i. was the son of Vonones n. The father reigned 

 a few months ; his son, known by the wars he engaged in with 

 Rome, is supposed to have reigned between 50 and 91 a. d. 



Another Volagases is not spoken of in Parthian history as 

 succeeding a Vonones. Have we not consequently both names 

 upon our coins ? 



This conjecture appears to me so probable, that I scarcely hesi- 

 tate to reject the acute one of Mr. Raoul Rochette,* who states, 

 that it was Vonones i., the vanquisher of Artabanus ; and even 

 though Mr. K. O. Mueller takes this explanation as undoubtedly 

 correct, the passages of Strabo, concerning the conquests 

 of the Parthians in Bactria, mention neither of the two 

 Vonones. 



Another king, likewise not Greek, of this later period, offers 

 another problem. Mr. Prinsep states his name to be Ipalirisos,f 

 and we read indeed upon the coin v. PL xxxv. No. 7, 

 BA2IAEQE BA2IAEQN MErAAOY IIIAAIPI20Y ; the 

 initial I of the name, however, is not quite distinct. R. R. I. No. 

 21, gives nothing of the legend but BA2IAEQN BA2IAEQ2, 

 and upon the reverse three illegible characters. Owing to the ac- 

 curate drawing of Mr. Prinsep, we can supersede that of Mr. 

 Masson, As. Trans, in. PI. xi. No. 44. Upon No. 6 the name 

 does not occur in Greek ; the rest is distinct. 



Mr. Prinsep has established his reading upon the comparison 



* II. p. 28. 



t As. Trans. V. 551. 



