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remaining signs do not suggest Kharosthi letters. The fifth letter of 
Nos. 2 and 3 suggests the Kharosthi e ; but on the whole the three 
legends suggest themselves as identical; for the first three letters in 
all are clearly the same ; so are most probably the sixth and seventh ; 
and the fifth letter of Nos. 2 and 3 may be only a badly drawn form 
of the corresponding letter in No. 1. The only apparent difference 
between the three legends is, that the fourth letter of No. 1 is wanting 
in Nos. 2 and 3. I am not able to decipher the legend ; but considering 
the juxtaposition with the other coins of Euthydemus and Enkratides 
which bear the name of Heliocles, I would like to suggest that the 
Bactrian legend might also contain that name. The alphabet current in 
Bactria must have been one of the very early modifications of the 
Aramaean, similar to the ancient Pahlavl and Kharosthi. The first and 
fifth letters are very like the Pahlavi h and the Kharosthi k respectively. 
The second letter resembles the Kharosthi l. The third and fourth 
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letters resemble the Pahlavi aleph and vau respectively, and together 
might have been used to express the vowel o. In Nos. 2 and 3 the 
fourth character is omitted; and the third might also be taken to 
represent the Aramaean ‘ayin and to express the vowel o. Anyhow 
the initial four or five characters may easily be interpreted to represent 
h-l-o-k , the initial portion of the name Heliok(les). It is more difficult 
to fit-in the remainder, unless we may assume that the name was 
pronounced with r instead of l , as in its Indian form Heliyakreya. In 
that case the sixth letter is r, in its form closely resembling the corres¬ 
ponding Pahlavi and Kharosthi characters. The seventh letter appears 
to be mutilated, and there may have been an eighth ; but I do not know 
what the genitive inflection of the local Bactrian or Scythian dialect may 
have been in those days. Thus the characters may represent the letters 
h-l-o-k-r , which would well enough make up the name of Heliokles. 
m Coins of Hyrkodes. 
There are twenty-six coins of Hyrkodes, about 110 B.O., silver obols ; 
mostly of the two well-known types, with Head of King on obverse, and 
either Standing Figure (17 specimens), or Head of Horse (7 spec.) on 
reverse, as shown in Brit. Mus. Oat., pi. xxiv, 10 (10 spec.), ibidem , 
pi. xxiv, 11 (7 spec.), and ibid., pi. xxiv, 12 (7 spec.). But there are 
two obols, one being a new variety of the well-known type, the other 
an entirely new type. The new variety (see Plate II l, No. 8) shows on 
the reverse the Standing Figure holding a spear in his left hand, while 
the usual variety shows the spear in his right hand. Weight 13 grs.; 
size 0‘5". The new type (see Plate III, No. 9) shows the usual Head 
of King on the obverse, but the reverse has a standing figure to the 
