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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[DECEMBER, 1888.
the Kurd-bachê; but this does not prevent them were found in a large board of silver coins di8. from being present at their assemblies and par covered in 1878 in the village of Molodi, in the taking of the sacrifices. M. Zhukovski was struck district of Pskov. They are now in the Hermi. with the neatness and order to be seen in these tage at St. Petersburg, and the sixth is in the villages
collection of General A. V. Komarov. (e) A Journey to Susinjan.-In this article
M 1 . A dirham struck in the town of Jannab in Veselorski describes a journey which he under- 335 year of hijra (=946-947 A.D.). took to this place with the view of exploring a 2. A dirham struck at Al-Muhammadia in kurgan. It is situated about 70 versts from Tash. 338 of hijra ( 949-950). kand. The naine signifies the parting of the 3. A dirham struck at Astara båd in year 366 of waters. The kurgan was not found to yield any. hijra ( 976-77). thing of especial interest, and the chief value of 4. A dirham struck at As-Sirjân in the year the article lies in its description of the surround. | 366 also. ing localities.
5. A fragment of a dirham of Azadu'ddaula (f ) A Hoard of Coins found at Chistopol.-There without the name of place or year. have been many finds of Kafic coins in Russia, 1 6. A dirham, struck at Shiraz in 398 year of but those belonging to the second half and the hijra (1007-08). end of the tenth century are the rarest, especially (g) Inscriptions obtained in an Expedition to those of the Buveyyids or Buyis. T. S. Saveliev Wadi Hammamdt, by V. Golenistchev. The jour. described a hoard, found in the Government ney was undertaken in the winter of 1884-1885. of Kazan in the year 1885, consisting of dirhams The author went from Kupt (the ancient Coptos) of the Bayis, who in fact ruled Baghdad for more to Wadi Hammamet, which lies between the than a hundred years (933-1058). Their coins Nile and the Red Sea, where the rocks abound are noted for the abundance of inscriptions on with inscriptions. They refer to all periods of them. There is a work on these coins by the Egyptian history, from the earliest to the days of Danish scholar Lindberg, Essai sur les monnaies the Persians and Ptolemies. They have been coufiques frappées par les Emirs de la famille des collected and published for the most part by Bouides et les princes de leur dependance. In Lepsius. The author then describes his journey, 1856 some more of these coins were found in the from which we select some salient points. At village of Maklasheyerka, in the district of Spass. Kusar-al-benat he found several graftti and koe. Most of the coins, however, have unfortunately was astonished to see among Greek, Coptic and disappeared, with the exception of one secured by Arabic inscriptions some in characters like those M. Likhachev. There was another find in 1862 found in the peninsula of Sinai. Up to this time in the village of Balimera, also in the district of none of these have been found on the African Spasskoe. From this hoard the author succeeded Continent. Further on his journey on the rock in obtaining 48 dirhams. They were chiefly of the called by the Bedouins Jabal-Abu-Kud some very dynasty of the Bayis. In February 1886 some old hieroglyphics were met with. The first relates Eastern coins were exhibited in the windows of a to the time of the king Ameni'otep IV. the great money-changer at Kazan. These he purchased. religious innovator. A disk of the sun is figured They were found in the district of Chistopol and with six rays, ending in a representation of hands. had been sold by a Tâtår to the money-changer. The author then gives some examples of inscripThe find consisted of 52 dirhams. The earliest tions not included in Lepsius, and then an inbelonged to year 303 of the hijra ( 915-16 scription of one Hannu, who visited the Valley A.D.); the latest 384 of the hijra (996 A.D.). Hammamet in the times of Pharaoh Sankhkara They are as follows: (1) Amants: two of of the eleventh dynasty. After a somewhat lengthy Nasr, son of Ahmad; two of Noh, son of Nasr ; prelude he proceeds to describe his visit to Wadi seven of Nah, son of Mansur (2) Bayis; three of Hammamat. Another older inscription, relating Azadu'ddaula; nine of Muvayyadu'ddaula (none
to the second year, the fifteenth day of the month of these coins have been previously described);
Faofi of the king Mentuiotep, records the exploita seven of Fakhru'ddaula ; four of Khusrav Firde. of an Egyptian named Amen-em-h-at. A third (3). Dilamis: one of Bistan, two of Qabos inscription records the difficulty which an
To this article a note is added by Tiesenhausen Egyptian named Antef had in reaching the on six other coins of this dynasty, which as yet valley. "My lord, 1.e. (Pharaoh) sent me to have not been described. The first five of these the place Ro-banna to bring him a beautiful
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. Throughout these lists one is struck with the large number of coins which have not been previously de. scribed.
Denkmaler aus Ægypten und Æthiopien.
These are given on one of the boventoon plates with which the article is illustrated.
