C 352 3 
IV. 
The fourth (fee Tab. XIII. n, 5.) is a fmall brafs 
medal, that may pafs for an inedited coin, though one 
not unlike it has been publill'ied by M. Baudelot. 
On one fide a human figure, that probably repre- 
fents a king of Perfia, with a Perfian tiara on its head, 
in a triumphal car, drawn by two horfes, and driven 
by a fimilar figure, with a Perfian tiara likewife on 
its head, prefects itfelf to our view. On the other, a 
velTel navigated by rowers, refembling that exhibited 
by the three foregoing coins, may be clearly difcern- 
ed. The piece has been well preferved, and w’as 
undoubtedly anterior to the redudion of Syria and 
Phoenicia by Alexander the Great. For that the 
perfon in the car is a Perfian, we may infer from the 
tiara on his head, which occurs on the heads of feve- 
ral Perfian figures (24) in the ruins of Perfepolis ; 
and that he was a royal perfonage, appears from 
hence, that the kings of Perfia only had their effigies 
imprefl: on the Perfian coins. It is true, fbme of the 
figures in the ruins of Perfepolis are the produce of 
the Parthian times, and feveral of them even coeval 
with fome of the princes of the houfe of Saifan, 
and confequently of flill a later date. But, notwith- 
flanding this, the figures now in view were un- 
doubtedly Perfian, and fully evince the point they 
are brought to prove ; but had they been Parthian, 
that would have made no alteration in the prefent 
cafe, as the Perfians and the Parthians ought to be 
confidered as one and the fame nation, and their 
attire as one and the fame. 
(24) Engelbert. Kasmpfer. AmcenUat, ExotUar, Fafcic. p. 345, 
312, 340, &c. Lemgovise, 1712. 
That 
