[20] Reise in Syrien (Leipzig, 1883).
[21] Inscriptions sém. de la Syrie, &c. i. (Paris, 1907).
[22] J. H. Mordtmann, “Beitr. zur Minäischen Epigraphik,” in Semitistische Studien, 12 (Weimar, 1897).
[23] In Bent’s Sacred City of the Ethiopians (London, 1893).
[24] Revue sémitique (1901).
[25] Journ. As. x., xvii., xix.
[26] Zur Entzifferung d. Safā-Inschr. (Leipzig, 1901).
[27] It may be remarked that there are about twelve different views regarding the date of Kaṇishka and the origin of the Vikrama era. Some writers hold that Kaṇishka began to reign in A.D. 78: one writer would place his initial date about A.D. 123: others would place it in A.D. 278. The view maintained by the present writer was held at one time by Sir A. Cunningham; and, as some others have already begun to recognize, evidence is now steadily accumulating in support of the correctness of it.
[28] The legends on coins form part of numismatics, though closely connected with inscriptions.
[29] The amphorae which conveyed the wine and other products of various localities have imprinted on their handles the name of the magistrate and other marks of the place and date. Large collections have been made of them, and they repay inquiry. See Dumont, Inscriptions céramiques (1872); Paul Becker, Henkelinschriften (Leipzig, pt. i. 1862, pt. ii. 1863); Hiller v. Gaertringen, I.G. xii. 1065-1441.