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260 meets us again in the various works of art found on the Oxus. We have the king in his two-wheeled chariot, standing behind his charioteer, in the silver Daric (Pl. xii, 6, 7), and in the gold relic (Pl. xii, 8). We have the peculiar Persian trowsers, the sarabâra (sarâwil), in the gold statue (Pl. xii, 1), and again in the silver statuette (Pl. xi). Besides this, we have (Pl. xv, 6) the stag in gold, corresponding to the stag in silver-lead (Pl. 172, Mykenae). We have the figure of a man in bronze (Pl. xix, 4), and of a king in gold (Pl. xii, 1), both reminding us of the figure of a man found at Mykenae (Pl. 86), and we have the small pigeon (Pl. xv, 3) which might have come off from one of the figures found at Mykenae (Pl. 106, and 179).

All this would become intelligible, if we might trace the treasures found on the Oxus and the treasures found at Mykenae back to the same source—namely, to booty found by the Greeks in the Persian camp, and to booty carried off by Macedonian generals from the palaces of Darius.

This would not explain the origin of all the treasure found in the tombs of Mykenae, but it would give a clue to some of them, and thus impart a new interest to Dr. Schliemann's discoveries. I have quoted the numbers of the Mykenae plates from the Collection of the original photographs presented to me by Dr. Schliemann. See also Journal of the As. Soc. Bengal, 1883, p. 55.