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form of one of the characters is so peculiar 

 that it is not easy to decypher the legend; if 

 the letter is u, we must read either Uro or Ron. 

 Perhaps the doubtful character is a numeral, and 

 the legend should be read Ro. 



2nd. Lycian coins without the Triquetra. 



No. 16. — A bearded Head with a cap or helmet, to 

 the right, in a circle surrounded by a beading, 

 with the legend /PTOXryP/'; the last letter 

 worn and doubtful : rev. A female Head, to the 

 right, in a beaded circle, much defaced. 

 Silver : weight 124j grs. In the British Museum. 

 From the Rev. Mr. Daniell. 



This is the only Lycian coin which can be pro- 

 nounced with certainty to be that of a king or 

 satrap : the legend is Artoapara, in which we 

 have the Lycian form of that common com- 

 mencement of Persian names of kings and 

 grandees which the Greeks rendered Arta, as 

 in Artaxerxes, Artaphersus, Sec. This, therefore, 

 was without doubt the coin of a Persian satrap 

 of Lycia, whose name has not come down to 

 us in history. 



The same name is found, with a slight varia- 

 tion of spelling, in two of the Lycian inscriptions. 

 On the tomb of Ddapssama at Pinara, (Fellows, 



