The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s6.133

c10.s6.133

I come at length to the Paropamisadae. Hermaeus cannot have ascended the throne later than about 50 B.C. (p. 337), and it is certain that another known king, Amyntas, was his father, for the monograms show that they had the same moneyer,³ and both used a peculiar type of unknown meaning, a bearded male bust, radiate, in a Phrygian cap (p. 334). But there is nothing in Amyntas’ coins to suggest a long reign, and even if Antialcidas could be brought down as late as 90 B.C., which seems very unlikely (pp. 313 sq.), there must still be a considerable gap between him and Amyntas, with no Greek king to fill it but Telephus, the extreme rarity of whose coins points to a very short reign. It is difficult to make out what was happening in the Paropamisadae between Antialcidas and Hermaeus, but far the likeliest hypothesis is that, till the advent of Maues, most of the country was in the hands of the ‘Sacas’