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The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s5.190

The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s5.190

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c10.s5.190

¹ See p. 305 n. 2. Sapadbizes, for instance, wears Eucratides’ helmet with Seleucus’ badge and has an Indo-European face (BMC Pl. XXIV, 14, 15). The more important Hyrcodes, however, of whose silver issues many barbarous imitations exist, looks like a Kushan (ib. Pl. XXIV, 9), in spite of his Greek-sounding name; and ‘King Antiochus’, on the Indian side of the mountains (p. 323), is bearded and looks rather like a Parthian.