1899.] 
Section 1 .— Coins and Seals. 
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No. 76. Square flat seal of brass, with perforated peg, engraved 
with an ornamental design. From M. 2, found at Aq Sapil. 
No. 77. Square flat seal of copper, bearing four square ornamental 
designs, two of them being different forms of the Svastika. From M. 6. 
No. 78. Square flat copper seal, with perforated peg, engraved with 
an ornamental design. From M. 6. 
No. 79. Square flat seal of brass, with perforated peg, engraved 
with an ornamental quaterfoil design. From M. 2, found at Aq Sapil. 
Another specimen, of the same size, was in M. 9. See No. 71. 
No. 80. Flat copper seal, consisting of a square surmounted with 
a tridental crown, and furnished with a perforated peg. Bearing 
ornamental designs, that on the square being the same as on No. 79. 
From M. 6. 
No. 81. (Plate XIX, 11). Elliptical intaglio, perhaps of felsite*; 
Grecian ; showing a draped and helmeted figure, sitting on a stool (?), 
holding a bird (?) on his outstretched right hand. From G. 4. 
There is one cameo in the collection. See Plate XIX, 9. From 
G. 10. It shows the helmeted head of a young man, of Grecian 
design. 
Among the gems, shown on p. 779 of Dr. Sven Hediti’s Through 
Asia , aud obtained by him in Kliotan, there are several which are strik¬ 
ingly like some in the British collection. Thus the second in his first 
line of facsimiles resembles our No. 30. There are three other similar 
ones on that page, but they differ in having a ribbon round the neck 
of the figure shown on it. There is also there one gem strikingly like 
our No. 29. The deer, hare, and large-horned sheep are also found 
on several of them. 
But what is more noteworthy is that exactly similar seals and 
intaglios have been discovered in the ancient stupas of Afghanistan. 
Samples of these are shown in Wilson’s Ariana Antigua , Plates i, iii 
aud iv. Thus figs. 7-10 on PI. iv, show two square flat seals with 
perforated peg, made of iron or brass. Plate i, fig. 8, PI. iii, fig. 7 
and PI. iv, figs. 10, 11 are similar cornelian intaglios. The signet-rings, 
shown on PI. i, 5, and PI. iii, 6, though similar in shape to our Nos. 27, 
44, 72, differ in being more costly, being of gold with inlaid cornelians, 
while those in our collection are made entirely of brass or copper. 
I may also note the evidences afforded by these objects to the 
prevalence of Grecian and Buddhist culture in ancient Kliotan. 
Nos. 24, 26, 32, 33 on PI. Ill and No. 11 on PI. XIX are distinctly 
Grecian ; so are the centaur on PI. Ill, No. 28, and the pegasus on 
No. 57. Distinctly Indian are the Brahmani bull on No. 54, and the 
elephant on Nos. 52, 53. Distinctly Buddhist are the Svastika on 
