233 
1890.] punch-marleed coins of HinduUan, 
silver coins of this series, due probably to the later date of the larger 
Eran coins. 
111. An unknown object. Fig. 88, 
112. A SOLAE WHEEL. Fig. 138. 
This is clearly a solar wheel, with sixteen curved rays or in other 
words, a wheel compounded of four ‘ swastikas' 
113. Bow AND Arrow in a Square. Fig. 67. 
. 114. Symbol 27 only with six ‘ chatras.’ Fig. 229. 
115. A ‘ Thyrsos ’ and appendages within an oval area. Fig. 178. 
This symbol occurs on a coiu in the collection of Sir A. Cunningham 
and is the only example that I have seen. 
Rare, however, as this peculiar symbol is, two variants of it appear 
to me recognisible on inscribed stones in Scotland. S. S. S. Vol. II, p. 
cxxvii) also figured in the Magazine of Art. Vol. VI, page 17. One 
variant is on a stone from St. Vigean’s and consists of a scroll springing 
from a trefoil centre, and crossed ])y two spear-heads, which if produced 
would meet in the trefoil. (Fig. 12 1. c.). In this variant the ‘ Thyrsos ’ 
is replaced by the trefoil, with which it is esoterically related as a Diony- 
siac or solar symbol. The second variant occurs on a stone from near 
Meigle, Rossie Priory, (Figs. 4 and 16 1. c.) and on one from St. Madoc’s 
(Fig. 20). In this variant two ‘ Thyrsi ’ (as I should term them) joined 
below, transfix an inverted crescent, either plain, or ornamented with 
scroll-work. 
Another variant, or at all events a symbol esoterically related to the 
present one is perhaps seen in Fig. 220 to be described presently. 
116. Fig. 115. 
Whatever this symbol is intended to represent, it certainly occurs on 
sculptural stone in Scotland. A very clear example of it occurs at 
Inveravon, Banffshire, (S. S. S. Vol. I, p. xv), accompanied by some 
other symbols, but without anything to throw light on the object intended, 
and the only suggestion I can offer is that it may be a rudely executed 
variant of a ‘ lingam ’, which idea is corroborated by a variant of it at 
Tillytarment, Aberdeenshire (S. S. S. Vol. II, PI. CIX) on which an 
inner circle is inscribed, approximating it therefore to the usual form of 
that symbol. 
