Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c23.26

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*§ 75. Scytho-Sassanians.* — These coins come generally from the districts on the Oxus, to the north of the Paropanisus; but, as they are also occasionally found in the Kabul Valley and are, probably, the result of invasions into this district (§ 115), they call for a short notice here (**Plate II, 15**). Their limits of date are approximately fixed by the following data: --(1) Some of the earliest specimens bear the head-dress and name of the Sassanian king, Hormazd II (a.d. 301--310), who married a daughter of the Kuṣaṇa king of Kabul; (2) the later limit (a.d. 450) marks the date at which the territories on the Oxus were wrested from the Sassanians by the Ephthalites (C.NChr. 1893, p. 169). The date of the different coins is, in most cases, fixed, as they usually bear the head-dress of the contemporary Sassanian monarch, together with his name and titles in a debased form of the Greek alphabet.