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THE EARLY FAITH OF AŞOKA.
No. 21. (Obverse. Juvenile bust of the King, with silken garment,
mace, ankus, with a close-fitting compact helmet and Sassanian
fillets.) Reverse. Rayed figure, with flowing garments, as in the Plate.
Legend. MIOPO, Mithra. No. 22. (Obverse. Old form of bust of the King, Kadphises style.)
Reverse. Figure as in the Plate. Legend. MIIPO, Mihira. No. 23. (Obverse. Well-executed profile, but less-finished bust, of
the King; wearing the Roman pallium, with mace, spear, peaked cap, prominent frontlet, bold halo, bossed cheek-plates , with flowing fillets of the ordinary character, associated with the Sassanian drooping falls on the back of the left shoulder,
flame on the right shoulder.) Reverse. Figure, also clothed in the pallium, as seen in the Plate.
The type of the reverse follows, in a measure, the earlier examples of haioc (A. A. xi. 16) and MIIPO (A. A. xii. 15), and it has something in common with the beautiful reverse of No. 21 of our Plate II. Legend of “undetermined" import APAEIXPO.
BAZAHO. No. 24. (Obverse. King standing to the front, in full Scythian cap
à-pied armour, with sword, spear, high pointed cap, reduced halo, falling fillets, with large Mithraic altar, into which the right hand of the King seems to be casting votive incense, as
in A. A. xiv. 18. Legend, constant. PAO NANO PAO BAZOAHO KOPANO.) Reverse. Figure as exhibited in the Plate. Şiva trimukhi, to the
front, with top-knot, holding trident and noose (pasu), clad
in the Indian dhoti, naked above the waist. Legend. Reversed-Greek POKPO. No. 25. (Obveree. Full-length figure of the King, in bossed and
armour fished skirt (as in A.A. xiv. 14). Reveree. Figure as shown in the Plate. Şiva, single-faced, with
top-knot, and bushy hair, clothed in the Indian dhoti, bold muscular development of the chest, trident, noose (paşu),
well-defined Bráhmaní bull, monogram, stc. Legend. OKPO. No. 26. (Obveree. Standing figure of the King, the bosses of the
body-armour appear in full detail, the fish-scale skirt is also given, as are the greaves and the rings, or serpent-like protection of the arms. The spear is here a subdued trident, with a bold central point and reduced side spikes; but the
