Studies in Indian Art c12.s12.7

c12.s12.7

Next is reproduced a head (No. 2564, ht. 9", fig. 102) of spotted red sand-stone, turned to the right, and wearing a peculiar helmet with two recurved horns. This emblem signified the ‘Iranian Majesty’. (Kushano-Sasanian Coins by prof Hersfeld, p. 22) and has been traced on the so-called Macedonian soldier type of Coins of Kujula Kadphisis I (see Whitehead, Catalogue of Coins in the Lahore Museum, Vol. *Indo-Greek Coins*, p. 173), and also at Mathura from the well-known Indo-Persian capital found from the Chaubara mound, which has four winged animalswit human heads adorned with ram’s horns (see Cunningham, A.S.B., Vol. III, p. 18).