The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s1.218

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⁴ I have failed to find out how old the balas ruby is. The earliest I have met with are those on the Bimarān casket, which was found with coins of Azes I and is probably not *earlier* than c. 30 B.C.; some ruby beads from Taxila are also not earlier than Azes, *ASI* 1915-16 p. 5. For Roman times see Warmington, p. 249, who tells me he has not met with the balas ruby in Hellenistic or Greek times. Yet it is hard to believe that the mine was first opened by the Yueh-chi.