Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c11.s28.12

c11.s28.12

¹ Aryan woman of the Punjab, seated figure in Indian attitude with the scarf over the left shoulder. ‘These are the first remains of Indians known on the Mediterranean. Hitherto there have been no material evidences for that connection which is stated to have existed, both by embassies from Egypt and Syria to India and by the great Buddhist mission sent by Aśoka as far west as Greece and Cyrene. We seem now to have touched the Indian colony in Memphis, and we may hope for more light on that connection which seems to have been so momentous for Western thought’. Petrie in *Man* VIII (1908) No. 71; See also Petrie—*Seventy years in Archaeology* p. 213 and *British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian research Account—Fourteenth year, 1908—Memphis* by Petrie (1908) ch. VIII. I owe these references to Prof. T. Balakrishna Nayar of Presidency College, Madras. For the Ptolemaic grave-stone with Buddhist symbols, wheel and *triratna*, see JRAS 1898, p. 875.