The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.197

c10.s4.197

It will be seen from the foregoing review that the actual number of Greek cities with Greek names known in Menander's empire was very small indeed, not more than half a dozen at the most; and though when Greek rule was breaking up and the autonomous city acquired an added importance the number of city-goddesses, *i.e.* the Fortune of some city, appearing on the late Greek and Saca coinage is considerable,¹ there is nothing to show that any places with native names (omitting Peucela-Pushkalāvatī) may have acquired Greek *polis*-organisation, as was certainly the case in Iran (p. 19); for all the city-goddesses on the coins appear to represent three cities only, Alexandria-Kapisa, Pushkalāvatī, and Bucephala. There is however one ray of light on the nature of a *Greek* city in India which is invaluable; it comes from one of the cave inscriptions, and these must now be considered.