The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.161

c10.s2.161

But the important figure on these coins is the three-headed Hecate; she has never been explained, but she is the key to several things. She is Hecate of the Three Ways, τριοδῖτις, who was worshipped at a τρίοδος, a place where three roads met; and only one τρίοδος can come in question here, the one in the Paropamisadae given by Alexander’s bematists and twice mentioned by Eratosthenes (App. 6), where met the three routes across the Hindu Kush from Bactria. Alexandria-Kapisa stood at the point of junction and doubtless Hecate of the Three Ways was worshipped there; and the fact that she stands on the hand of Zeus proves, as has already been deduced, that the Zeus of these coins was the god of Kapisa, that therefore Alexandria-Kapisa at the τρίοδος was the seat of Pantaleon and Agathocles, and that they were therefore successively sub-kings of the Paropamisadae. It also follows from this, almost with certainty, that the Zeus on the bilingual tetradrachm of Demetrius II was also the god of Kapisa and that consequently the deduction (p. 137) that at one time Alexandria-Kapisa had been the seat of that sub-king is sound.