#IndoGreekkings #Artemedorus & #Peucolaos Artemidoros was a king who ruled in the area of #Gandhara and #Pushkalavati in modern northern Pakistan and Afghanistan. Artemedorus ruled in #Pushkalavatl and the adjacent town of £Nikaea. This is indicated by the appearance on his coins of “bull and “panther’ of Pushkalavati and of Nike. He used the #monogram …
The Arya Mahameghavahana Chedis of Kalinga The Arya Mahameghavahana – Chedis of Kalinga Hathigumpha Cave Inscription of Kharavala. Provenance: Udayagiri Hills near Bhubaneshvar, Puri district, Orissa. Partly in front and partly on the roof of the Hathigumpha cave. Script : Brahmi of the period from the beginning of Second century B.C. to the end of …
ANTIALKIDAS. King of Kapisa and Gandhara. -135 to 95 B.C. AR. Attic tetradrachm. Qundus hoard, Kabul Museum. References: J.N.S.I., XVII, 1955, Pt. I, pl.VI.6, M.V.D. Mohan, Indo Greek Coins. p. 196, pl. VI, 5. Obv: Within bead-and-reel border, draped and helmeted bust of antialkidas, diad, one end floating and the other stiffly suspended. Rev: Zeus …
Eukratides II. EUKRATIDES II. Sub-king under Heliocles. AR. Attic tatradrachm.. B.M. References: E.J. Rapson, C.H.I., Pl. IV-9 M.V.D. Mohan, Indo Greek Coins, p.195, Pl.VI, 4. Obv: within bead-and-reel border, draped bust of Eukratides II r. diad. both ends stiffly suspended. Rev: Apollo standing to front, face inclined 1., looking along arrow held in r. hand, …
Heliocles was a Greco-Bactrian king, and successor of Eucratides the Great, and considered the last Greek king to reign over the Bactrian country. He was a king of the Indo-Greek dynasty which ruled Bactria & mostly the parts of the modern state of Pakistan. Eukratides, who rose in £revolt and drove the Demetrian family out …
#Eucratides 1, was an important #Greco-Bactrian kings. He had overthrown the #Euthydemid dynasty of Bactria and restored the Diodotid dynasty of Diodotus I, and had allied to the Parthian Empire. Eucratides fought against the easternmost #Hellenistic and #Indian rulers in India, holding territory in the indus and as far as #Barigaza until he was finally defeated by …
EUKRATIDES I. King of Bactria. — 180 to 170 B.C. 1.AR. Attic tetradrachm. Commemorating Heliocles and Laodike. References : E.J. Rapson, C.H.I., Pl. IV. 3, and A.K. Narain, Indo-Greeks, Pl.11.1; M.V.D. Mohan, Indo Greek Coins, p. 192, Pl.V.1. Obv: within bead-and-reel border, draped busts jugate r. of Heliocles, with bare head, and Laodike, wearing diadem. …
AMYNTAS https://youtu.be/n08dcU1PiyE #Amyntas was an #indogreek, #Sub-king, under Strato I His #coins have been found both in eastern #Punjab and #Afghanistan. Most of the coins minted by Amyntas were bilingual #silver coins with variety of #portraits. Some of the coins bear reverse of sitting #Zeus holding a victory palm and a small statue of Athena, …
Hermaeus. King of Kapisi-Nikaea region in northern Afghanistan 80 to 70 B.C. Hermaeus means the Saviour was an indo Greek king of the Eucratid Dynasty, who ruled the territory of Kapisi-Nikaea region. Hermaeus has been pushed very late by #scholars as there had been nothing common between #Hermaeus and Amyntas. They have been misled by …