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¹ See *J. Ind. Art.* Jan., 1900, p. 89; *J. R. A. S.*, 1903, p. 14, for the Theodore inscription in the Swat valley. A further inscription of Theodoros the 'meridarch' (μεριδάρχης) has been found on a relic casket, obtained from a Pathan village, now in the Lahore Museum. The title meridarch recurs on the inscribed copperplate from the Taxila (Shahdheri) stūpa No. 14, while the gold plate from stūpa No. 32 at the same place contains two other Greek names in corrupt forms (F. W. Thomas, *J. R. A. S.*, 1916, pp. 280, 285). The other Greek names include Heliodoros in the Besnagar inscription (*J. R. A. S.*, 1909, pp. 1053, 1087, 1093) and Agesilaos in the Kanishka casket record from Peshāwar (ibid., p. 1058). See also *Ann. Rep. A. S. W. C.*, 1914–15, pp. 59 ff. for further discoveries at the Besnagar site, including some sort of seal with the name Timitra, apparently = Demetrios, and a mould in steatite with a Graeco-Bactrian royal bust.