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Metal Size<br />

M<br />

M<br />

JE<br />

M<br />

JR 4<br />

5-4<br />

Weight<br />

236-2<br />

63-4<br />

55-5<br />

52<br />

KINGS OF PARTHIA. S3<br />

ARTAXERXES I,!<br />

Aged head to r. densely bearded, and covered <strong>with</strong> a cap, full at the top, but closer<br />

below, where it is divided into two flaps, one covering the neck behind,<br />

the other extending under the beard. The hair is seen in front, above<br />

A<br />

which a diadem encircles the cap. R. B € surrounding a lyre <strong>of</strong> seven strings.<br />

Struck at ? Colophon Electrotype from<br />

Note.— In some observations on the great bilinguar monument <strong>of</strong> Xanthus {Trans, <strong>of</strong> B. S. <strong>of</strong> Lite-<br />

the B. M.<br />

rature, Second Series, p. 258), I gave the following reasons for attributing this coin to Artaxerxes I.<br />

The head-dress is <strong>of</strong> tlie same kind as that <strong>of</strong> Dareius in the Mosaic <strong>of</strong> Pompeii. The lyre was<br />

peculiarly the symbol <strong>of</strong> Coloplion, <strong>with</strong> reference to the worship <strong>of</strong> the Clarian Apollo, and is found<br />

on all its earlier <strong>coins</strong>. KoXo^uv fulv yap ix^i rrjv \ipav is an observation <strong>of</strong> the sophist Himerius<br />

(Orai. 21, 8). In the Peloponnesian war, or precisely the time to which the style <strong>of</strong> this beau-<br />

tiful medal points. Colophon was in possession <strong>of</strong> the Persians (Thucyd. 3, 34) : the prince reigning<br />

at that time was Artaxerxes the First. It is evident from the <strong>Greek</strong> historians, that ' the king,' or<br />

' the great king,' was the ordinary appellation given to the Persian monarchs by the <strong>Greek</strong>s during<br />

the ages when the former were masters <strong>of</strong> Asia Minor. BASIA., therefore, is for "BaaCKiiag.<br />

KINGS OF PARTHIA.<br />

ARSACES II., or TIRIDATES,<br />

Younger brother <strong>of</strong> Arsaces I., founder <strong>of</strong> the Parthian dynasty, legan to reign about<br />

B.C. 248. By him Seleucus Callinicus was defeated and made prisoner.<br />

Head <strong>of</strong> Tiridates to I. in a close cap <strong>with</strong> a pointed top, covering the back <strong>of</strong> the<br />

neck and a part <strong>of</strong> the face, and tied under the chin. R. BASIAEQ2 MErAAoY<br />

APSAKoY. The king on a conical seat to r. <strong>with</strong> the same head-dress, and a<br />

short cloak (candys) hanging from his shoulders.<br />

Electrotype.<br />

Nate.—This head-dress resembles that <strong>of</strong> the king <strong>of</strong> Persia in the great Mosaic <strong>of</strong> Pompeii,<br />

as well as on the tetradrachmon in the British Museum inscribed BASIA. which I ;<br />

suppose to have<br />

been struck at Colophon.<br />

ARSACES v., or PHRAHATES I. {<strong>of</strong> Visconti and Mimmet),<br />

Contemporary <strong>of</strong> Antiochus IV., Epiphanes.<br />

Clothed bust <strong>of</strong> the king to I. ; the head bearded, and covered <strong>with</strong> a low diademate<br />

tiara. R. BA2IAEQ2 MErAAoV (AP2)aK0Y Eni4>ANoY. Bow in its case;<br />

behind it ?<br />

ARSACES XV., or PHRAHATES IV. {<strong>of</strong> Visconti and Mionnet),<br />

Contemporary <strong>of</strong> M. Antonius, whom he defeated.<br />

Bearded head and naked neck <strong>of</strong> the king to I., <strong>with</strong> tiara and diadem, the ends <strong>of</strong><br />

which hang behind the head ; in field to r. crescent and star, to I. star. R. BA-<br />

EIAEQS BAEIAEQN APEAKOY EYEPrEToY AIKAOY . . . I*AN»L *AEAAHN.<br />

The king seated to r. on a high-backed chair, holding a bow in his r. hand over<br />

an altar. Behind the chair a symbol.<br />

Same type. B. Same type and same legend more correctly spelled.

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