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³ The principal theories are those of Rapson in *CHI* Chap. XXIII, with which my own has certain affinities, and the very different one of Herzfeld in *Sakastan*, who identifies Vonones with the Arsacid king of Parthia who reigned A.D. 8–11 (as does Konow, *CII* p. xliii) though their coin-types are entirely different, and consequently gets everything very late. He starts from two wrong datings: our fixed points, he says (p. 91), are that the history of the Saca kingdom in India lies between Isidore, I B.C., and the date of the *Periplus*; for this (p. 89) he takes the Kornemann-Schur dating, A.D. 90–100, which has been refuted since he wrote, p. 148 n. 4. It really lies between the date of the Parthian survey which Isidore is reproducing, c. 110–100 B.C., and the true date of the *Periplus*, the middle of the first century A.D. (*ib.*); what matters is not Isidore’s own date but the date of his information.