The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s6.70

c10.s6.70

One detail of the Saca conquest has survived on the coinage: Maues’ fleet defeated a Greek fleet on the Indus, which gave him control of the river and opened the way to Taxila. This victory must have been a decisive event, as it is the event which Maues celebrated on his coins. One coin shows Poseidon with his trident—the usual symbolism of a naval victory—trampling on a river-god;⁵ on another Poseidon, while he still tramples on the river-god, hurls his thunderbolt at a small figure clinging to an *aphlaston*, the stern erection of a (presumably sinking) galley.⁶