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of the foregoing king, the mark of the vowel e is so often omit- 

 ted, that we need not scruple at supplying *\, as a vestige of it is 

 almost extant upon one coin. But if the first two syllables are 

 kali, the third must be *l . For this the only distinct specimen 

 has a character which we may take for r, to the head of whose 

 angle a small circle is annexed. But then follows a sign which 

 we may read as t, d, or r, and hence we are not allowed to take 

 the preceding sign as r. The same lp, however, denotes a 

 Greek v upon the latest coins of this class. The most pro- 

 bable conjecture therefore would be to supply e with regard to 

 the fourth character, and so far it would be read, kalyri. But 

 now, according to the precedent of the previous names, there 

 must follow "PA, jo, viz. Kalyrijo, instead of which we meet 

 with a character which is merely to be read as an m. The fact, 

 however, that T follows u, is of main importance, as this being 

 the case, the word is complete. 



According to the specimens lying before me, this T is not 

 certain, and the entire reading is therefore left problematical. 



Mo does by no means compensate for the expected jo; on 

 the other hand the Greek writing in no sort authorises us to read 

 OY instead of MOY. I cannot unravel this difficulty. Mr. 

 Prinsep presumed, the word which I take for the name, to be 

 the translation of brother, and supposed, that the word king 

 was at the end of the legend. Against this supposition I have 

 to raise the decisive objection, that the name cannot be ex- 

 pressed by the first word, and that, on the contrary, we can 

 point it out on the most plausible conjecture in the third 

 word. This being the case, the construction differs from 

 the Greek,* and the brother of the king, or what corresponds 

 to this word, occupies the first place; the legend, as far as 

 I have observed, never commences upon these coins from 

 below, in consequence, we have not to look for another word, 

 preceding the first. Nevertheless it is possible, that the third 

 word was followed by a title for Spaiyrios, though there is left 

 no room for a legend below, if the coins are exactly represented. 



The first word seems to have been so well and congruously 



* Mr. James Prinsep reads the Bactrian legend of the coins of Undo- 

 pherras T 5v li£ s P % "l f Kllp Farahetasa Nandatasa, which seems a preferable read- 

 ing to this' of Mr. Lassen.— H. T. P. 



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