366 Lassen on the History traced [No. 100. 



a, and conseqently yda : then would f be ph, and it has indeed 

 the same cross line with the phi of Kadphises, but above a 

 rounded, and not an angular shape ; still I confess, I am by no 

 means satisfied of the reading ydefo. 



But let us waste no more time and paper upon this bar- 

 barian chieftain, and rather wait for information from others. 



We finally come to the last of those rulers, who shall here 

 occupy us, namely Kadphises ; Mr. Raoul-Rochette has bap- 

 tized him Mokadphises. The reason for calling him Kadphises, 

 is founded, as Mr. Prinsep remarks, As. T. V. p. 553, upon the 

 fact, that Kadaphes is met with as a correspondent name upon 

 other coins. And if that Scythian was called Kadphis, Kadphises 

 would be a true Greek accommodation of the word, while 

 the native language must either absorb d, whence Kapisa 

 upon the coins, or to preserve d, it must separate this letter 

 from ph by an intervening vowel. But as Kadaphes occurs 

 without mo, the first supposition is more valid. 



Upon his coins appear either the more simple legend — 

 BA2IAEY2 OOHMO KAA<S>I2H2,* OOH - - MO 

 KAA#I2H2 or BA2IAEY2 BA2IAEQN 2QTHP MErAE 

 OOHMO (OOKMO) KAA^IEHSf. The evidently barbarian 

 word oohmo probably is the first part of the royal name, or a 

 title. Mr. K. O. Mueller has proposed the very acute conjec- 

 ture of reading Ovohemo or Ohovemo.% 



The native writing upon the coins of Kadphises seems always 

 to present the complete title, or perhaps something more, for 

 it is so small, and in the representation so indistinct, that we 

 cannot derive any certain information but from examining the 

 coins themselves, under the magnifying glass. Mr. Prinsep, 

 who had the coins before him, has given the legend§ 



ii£-in*iwtrnlfu ni^raan'pa-rPN-ilu 



I will compare this with the representations of the coins for 

 the purpose simply of pointing out the name. 



* As. Trans, iv. PL xxxvm. No. 1 No. 3 R. R. I. No. 22, Journ. des 

 Sav. 1834, No. vn. 

 t As. Trans, iv. PI. 631. R. R. I. No. 23 ditto. 

 % Goettinger Gel. Anz. 1838, p. 240. 

 § As. Trans. iv.'Pl. 632. 



