[PLATE XIX.Fig.

6.] On some of them the king has his hair bound with a simple diadem, without crown or cap of any kind.

On others he wears a cap of a very peculiar character, which has been compared to a biretta, but is really altogether _sui generis_.

The cap is surmounted by the ordinary inflated ball, is ornamented with jewels, and is bound round at bottom with the usual diadem.

The legend upon the obverse of Sapor's coins is of the customary character; but the reverse bears usually, besides the name of the king, the word _atur_, which has been supposed to stand for Aturia or Assyria; this explanation, however, is very doubtful.
The coins of both kings exhibit marks of decline, especially on the reverse, where the drawing of the figures that support the altar is very inferior to that which we observe on the coins of the kings from Sapor I.to Sapor II.