Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prefaces
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I (INTRODUCTORY): THE BACKGROUND IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- PART II BACTRIA AND INDIA
- CONCLUSION
- Excursus. The Milindapañha and Pseudo-Aristeas
- Appendix 1 Monograms and find-spots
- Appendix 2 The names in -ηνη
- Appendix 3 Agathocles' pedigree coins
- Appendix 4 The Yuga-purāna of the Gārgī Samhitā
- Appendix 5 Demetrius in the Hāthigumphā inscription of Khāravela
- Appendix 6 Alexandria of the Caucasus and Kapisa
- Appendix 7 Antiochus IV and the temple of Nanaia
- Appendix 8 A sealing from Seleuceia
- Appendix 9 Ki-pin (Kophen) and ‘Arachosia’
- Appendix 10 Ta-yuan
- Appendix 11 Chorasmia
- Appendix 12 Ormuz: a lost kingdom
- Appendix 13 Σάγαλα ἡ καὶ Εὐθυμέδεια
- Appendix 14 The supposed Oxo-Caspian trade route
- Appendix 15 The Oxus question to-day
- Appendix 16 The Era of the Moga copperplate from Taxila
- Appendix 17 The Hermaeus-Kujula Kadphises coins
- Appendix 18 San and Rho
- Appendix 19 Pāndava-Pāndu and Pāndhya
- Appendix 20 The Chinese sources
- Appendix 21 The Greek names of the Tochari
- Addenda
- Addenda (1950) to the Second Edition
- General Index
- Index of Principal Greek and Latin Passages
- Plate section
Appendix 17 - The Hermaeus-Kujula Kadphises coins
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Prefaces
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I (INTRODUCTORY): THE BACKGROUND IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- PART II BACTRIA AND INDIA
- CONCLUSION
- Excursus. The Milindapañha and Pseudo-Aristeas
- Appendix 1 Monograms and find-spots
- Appendix 2 The names in -ηνη
- Appendix 3 Agathocles' pedigree coins
- Appendix 4 The Yuga-purāna of the Gārgī Samhitā
- Appendix 5 Demetrius in the Hāthigumphā inscription of Khāravela
- Appendix 6 Alexandria of the Caucasus and Kapisa
- Appendix 7 Antiochus IV and the temple of Nanaia
- Appendix 8 A sealing from Seleuceia
- Appendix 9 Ki-pin (Kophen) and ‘Arachosia’
- Appendix 10 Ta-yuan
- Appendix 11 Chorasmia
- Appendix 12 Ormuz: a lost kingdom
- Appendix 13 Σάγαλα ἡ καὶ Εὐθυμέδεια
- Appendix 14 The supposed Oxo-Caspian trade route
- Appendix 15 The Oxus question to-day
- Appendix 16 The Era of the Moga copperplate from Taxila
- Appendix 17 The Hermaeus-Kujula Kadphises coins
- Appendix 18 San and Rho
- Appendix 19 Pāndava-Pāndu and Pāndhya
- Appendix 20 The Chinese sources
- Appendix 21 The Greek names of the Tochari
- Addenda
- Addenda (1950) to the Second Edition
- General Index
- Index of Principal Greek and Latin Passages
- Plate section
Summary
Hermaeus' Greek legend on his own coins, both silver and copper, which were struck in the A!lexandria-Kapisa mint, is always βασιλέως σωτῆρος Ἑρμαίου, ‘Of king Hermaeus, saviour’, and the Kharoshthi legend is the corresponding Maharajasa tradatasa Heramayasa, with the ‘Zeus enthroned’ of Alexandria-Kapisa. The Kadphises coins, which are of inferior style, resembling the debased copies of Hermaeus' money issued after his death, fall into two classes. The first class has: obverse, bust of Hermaeus diademed and Greek legend βασιλέως στηρος συ Ἑρμαίου (often corrupted); reverse, Heracles facing with club and lion's skin, and a Kharoshthi legend signifying ‘Kujula Kadphises, Kushan, yavuga (chief)’. This class has the square omicron but no other square letters. The second class has: obverse, bust of Hermaeus diademed, and a Greek legend, usually mutilated, reading ‘Kujula Kadphises, Kushan’; reverse, the same as the first class. This class, beside the square omicron, has the square sigma and phi which one associates with the coins of Gondophares; as both classes must be near in time, it is clear that the period is getting too late for letter forms to mean much chronologically.
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- The Greeks in Bactria and India , pp. 503 - 507Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010