Indische Palaographie von circa 350 a. Chr. – circa 1300 p. Chr. c23.5

c23.5

§ 67. The Nameless King. — This will, perhaps, be the most fitting place to discuss the attribution of the coins of 'the Nameless King', whose legends afford us only such information as is conveyed by the title BACIΛEYC BACIΛEYΩN (sic) CΩTHP MEΓAC, rarely accompanied by a Kharoṣṭhī translation (**Plate II, 10**; cp. GARD. p. 114). The extent of his dominion is shown by the fact that his coins are found in great numbers "all over the Panjab, as well as in Kandahar, and in the Kabul valley" (C.NChr. 1890, p. 115). From a consideration of the fabric and epigraphy of these coins certain tangible facts are deducible. They are connected, on the one hand, with those of Miaus (§ 35), by similarity of type, *rev.* Horseman, and by the use of the "reel and bead" border (cp. **Pl. II, 1 with 10**; C.NChr. 1890, Pl. XII, 1 with 4; GARD. Pl. XXIV, 7 with 6); and, on the other hand, with those of Hima Kadphises (§ 69), by the use of the nominative instead of the more