File EWW/1/78 - Copies of Coins and Inscriptions

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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/78

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Copies of Coins and Inscriptions

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  • [1844 - 1905] (Creation)

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6 notebooks

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West Edward William 1824-1905

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Royal Asiatic Society Archives

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Description: Six notebooks without covers, unruled, handwritten in ink. Some have inserts.
Contents:

  • Detailed copies of Greek coins front and back. Insert entitled "Inscriptions on Bactrian coins"
  • Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Asiatic Researcher Vol. 7", James Prinsep's work, "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal" esp. 1835.
  • Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Asiatic Researcher" Vol. 9 and 1
  • Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Asiatic Researcher" Vol. 1, 3
  • Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal" 1836, 1837
  • Copy of a transcription of a copper plate "dug up in the Manamati hills, in the district of Trupura" from "Asiatic Researcher" Vol. 9

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  • English
  • Persian

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