TABLE III-CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE URTUKI PRINCES.

1 Shams-ad-dín Sálíḥ was still reigning when Abu-l-Fida wrote his history in A.H. 715.

TABLE IV.-GENEALOGICAL TREE OF THE HOUSE OF URTUK.

No points except the diacritical points of value of being 500, of 50, and of, 6.

OBV.

represents 556; the numerical ثنو . سنة of ن

and the
The of is omitted, as on many other examples.
Type II.

2. Copper. (Pl. iv. fig. 1.) A.H. 559. (The late Col. C. S. Guthrie's Collection.)?
REV. A. Half-figure, facing, bare-headed.

مين و خمس مابة

الملك العادل فخر الدین قر ارسلان بن داود . بن ارتق

The first stroke of the of is taller than the others; the of and the so, too, the

مائة of ى and خمس (مايه خمس مائة of

OBV.

Type III.

3. Copper. (Pl. iv. fig. 2.) A.H. 560. (British Museum. Num. Chron. no. 3.)

and of بن and of أرسلان of ,, قرا of خمسمائة and of خ سنة Diacritical points on reverse to . of

ق

خ

ن

, and a line (representing the two points) over

foliate ornament.

1 It is remarkable that this simple explanation has never before been proposed, except by myself in the Num. Chron. vol. xiii. p. 284.

of. The of is prolonged into a

2 In the British Museum there is another specimen similar to this, but rather inferior in condition, which has been described by me in the Num. Chron. vol. xiii. p. 380.

Type IV.

1.

Овт.

The

4. Copper. (Pl. iv. fig. 3.) A.H. 562. (British Museum. Num. Chron. no. 5.)

المستجد of, ى

presenting the Virgin.]

the ,سنة of

ن

though in the case of the

الامام

and of, the and of all, have their proper diacritical points;

of . the diacritical points can scarcely be called proper, as the letter serves for the base of hemz and therefore should not be dotted.

A variety in the British Museum differs only in points, and not much in them, so far as the indistinctness of the coin permits me to judge.

2.

5. Copper. (Pl. iv. fig. 4.) A.H. 570. (British Museum. Num. Chron. no. 7.)

Same but small winged figure, to left, behind left shoulder of central figure; and, on the opposite side of

rev.

الامام | المستنجد بالله instead of الامام | المستضى بامر الله Same as preceding, but . . marg

. داود instead of داوود and rev. area

Until I was informed of the existence of this last coin I was inclined to think that Ibn-al-Athír was correct in his date of Kará-Arslán's death (A.H. 562), and that the occurrence of that prince's name on a coin of the year 570 (no. 5) was to be explained by Núr-ad-dín having omitted to alter the reverse of his father's coin when he changed the date. But no. 6, besides confirming the date 570, brings further evidence by the name of the Khalifah Al-Mustaḍí, who did not begin to reign till 565, three years after the death of KaráArslán, as recorded by Ibn-al-Athír. We cannot choose but to accept the testimony of these two monuments, and to place the death of Kará-Arslán at 570, or the earlier part of 571. No coin of Núr-ad-dín is known of an earlier date than 571, and this too goes to support the evidence of the two coins of Kará-Arslán. One difficulty remains-the coincidence of the name of the Khalifah Al-Mustanjid, who died in 565, on the coin bearing the date 570. This I think must be explained by the suggestion I offered before as to the reverse of Kará-Arslan's fourth type having been left unchanged when the date on the obverse was altered: the difference I now make in the explanation is that it was left unchanged by Kará-Arslán himself, whereas before I supposed that it was his son Núr-ad-dín who had altered the date, but not the reverse.

9

و

The orthography is very unusual. Ordinarily the name is written l, in which case the should be marked with maddah () to show that it is a contraction for. The transliteration Dá-úd (based upon the vulgar pronunciation ) is incorrect; it should be Dáwúd.

1 Brought to my notice by Dr. Blau, Kaiserlich deutscher, General-Consul, Odessa.