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feldom vifible on the Parthian coins. The reverfe 
agrees with that of the piece I am conlidering, in 
every particular but the infcription ; from which, 
tho’ Phoenician, that of the medal before me is in- 
ti rely different. That on M. Pellerin’s piece, howe- 
ver, is formed of lix letters ; the three firft of 
which are apparently Mem, Latnerf, Caph , which 
conflitute the word melec, king. The 
fourth greatly refembles the Chaldee Vau y and not a 
little one of the forms of the fame element (35) uied 
by the Palmyrenes. The fifth mull be taken, as I 
apprehend, for Rf/ch, being very like the figure of 
that letter on the medal engaging my attention here*. 
The fixth may pafs for a form of D.aleth , that has 
buffered from the injuries of time. Admit this, and 
I fee not the leaft impropriety in fuch a conceffion, 
and the word maybe read orod ; which, flripped of 
the Greek termination, is not only a Parthian proper 
name, but the very name of the prince who fat upon 
the throne when (36). the Parthians were poffeffed 
of Cilicia, and their forces overthrown by Ventidius.. 
Had it not been for the fuppreffion of the latter Vau 9 , 
this word would have been intirely the fame with 
vorod, or orod, exhibited by three Palmyrene 
(37) inscriptions, and written TOPOAHE, vorodes, 
or orodes, in the correfpondent Greek ones. And 
with regard to the fuppreffion of Vau 3 this was by 
( 35 ) 
N uni. 
(?. 6 ) 
( 37 ) 
Philofopb. Tranfufl. Vol. XLVIII. p. 603. & Tab. XXX. 
3 * 
Appian. Alexandria & Dio, ubi fup. 
Philofopb, Tranfotft, Vol, XLVIII, p. 694, 695) 
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