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character, or monogram, feemingly compofed of the 
Greek letters E,A, and three or four unknown cha- 
racters, that have fuffered a little from the injuries of 
time. Such are the coins now deferibed, and the 
proper objeCts of my attention here. 
With regard to the word, or rather name,nPOZOT, 
I ihall not hefitate a moment to read and pronounce 
it nEPOZOY ; inftances of the omiffion of a Greek 
letter, according to the (2) writers here referred to, hav- 
ing been met with on the Parthian coins. Nay, I 
find in mv fmall cabinet an inedited Parthian coin, 
with the following imperfeCt infeription upon it, 
BAEjj jj jj jj BAEIA jj jj jj jjAljj jj jj jj ErilOANYjj jj 
OIAEAN jj jj jj jj for OIAEAAHN jj jj to omit Others 
that might, with equal facility, be produced. Nor can 
this be matter of furprize to any one who coniiders, 
that Greek words are fometimes very inaccurately 
expreiTed on thofe coins. The unufual curls, 
on the reverfe, may pofiibly be thought to 
point at Armenia (3), as the country where thefe 
pieces were ftruck ; efpecially, as the complex cha- 
racter, if it is a monogram formed of the Greek 
elements E,A, or EA, feems to direCt us to the city 
of Elegia in Armenia, where a whole Roman army 
(4) was cut off by Vologefes II. And this will appear 
(2) Edvard. Corfin. Ad Clariff. Vir. Paid. M. Paciaud. Epijl. 
Romas, 1757. Erafm. Frcel. Reg. Vet. Numifm . &c. Tab. I.N.X. 
Viennas Auitriae, 1753- Vid. etiam Saggi di Dijjertazion. Ac - 
cademich. tdc. di Carton. Tom.' VII. p. 203. In Roma, 1758. 
Nov. Adi. Eruditor. Lipf. Men/. Auguji. 1758. p-436. Lipfise, 
1758. & Philof. Tranf. Vol. LVI. Tab. XV. N. 3. 
(3) Pbilofopb. Tranfadi. Vol. L. Par* I. p. 186. 
(4) Jul. Capitolin. in M. Antonin. Pbilofopb. Lucian, in Vii. 
Alexand . P feudomant. p. 486, 487. 
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