210 W. Tlieobald—J/o^PS on some of the symbols found on the [No. 3, 
seuted with a goat in attendance, the god carries in one hand a drum, 
Imt where the goat is not present, tlie drum is replaced by the usual 
forked thunderbolt, PI. NXyill, figs. 14 and 15. The wording of the 
Catalogue is here not quite uniform, as the drum of fig. 14 is in the 
text described as a ‘ thunderbolt,’ though the same object on PI. XXVI, 
fig. 13 is described as a ‘drum.’ Now this drum and goat may possibly 
refer to the wanderings of Siva, in guise of a mendicant Brahman, when 
in feigned disparagement of liimself he tried the faith of the maiden 
who had given lier heart to the god, who stood unrecognised before 
her, as so well told in the hymn of Sir W. Jones to Siva. Or the 
‘ drum ’ so called may bo regarded in the light of a mace, the homo- 
logue of the Grecian thunderbolt, but the main point I thiirk to 
establish is that the so-called drum is introduced only when the goat is 
brought in as well. Fig. 63 probably represents the same article, 
whether ‘ drum,’ ‘ reliquary ’ or ‘ lamp,’ and it not improbably repre- 
sents the first, on Indo-Scythic coins, whilst on the older punch-marked 
coins it stands for the latter articles. 
20. A SPHBEE SL'BRODNDED BY SEVEN OWL-HEADS. Fig. 96. 
This symbol is not mentioned by Thomas, but occurs in duplicate, 
unaccompanied by any other on a rectangular three karsha-piece in 
ray possession, weighing 175 grains from Rawal Pindi. It consists of a 
central boss, supporting seven equidistant and similar spokes or rays, 
shaped like the Greek letter ‘ phi ’ with the projecting top sti-oke cut off. 
This shortened ‘ phi ’ as I have termed it, is essentially identical with 
the symbol found on pottery and terra-cotta whorls at Troy, which 
Schliemann call ‘owl’s head’ and identifies (with sufficient probability 
in my opinion) with tbe cult of Athene, (Schliem.ann, Troy, p. 312, fig. 
227). This symbol No. 20 may, however, be taken to represent the earth, 
surrounded by the seven planets, whose action on mundane affairs may 
bo implied by the stroke connecting each with the centre. We may 
further consider the symbol as an esoteric allusion to the mystical pro- 
perty and attributes of the number seven, doubtless all originally based 
on the number of the planets recognised by Chaldnean astrologers. 
Seven was the Sabbatical number of the Jews, whose obligation to 
Assyria and Egypt, for much of their religious knowledge it is futile 
to question. W hen Noah constructed his ark seven clean beasts were 
selected to enter therein, and seven days’ space allowed to get them into 
their places, and after seven months the whole happy family once more 
settled on terra firma. Seven were the years of plenty and of subsequent 
famine foretold by the seven head of kino and seven ears of corn. Seven 
wore the branches of the temple candlestick, and seven the victims of 
