The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s7.51

c10.s7.51

In addition, so far as Greeks go, Taxila has supplied a few pieces of Greek sculpture, the best known being the head of a Dionysus and the child with its finger to its lips;² various small objects of art and also seals, some with Greek engraving and two or three bearing Greek names written in Kharoshthi (p. 389); and a great number of coins, including new ones of the Parthian and Kushan periods,³ sometimes of value for chronology because of the stratification of the finds. But the great value of the excavations to the Greek historian lies in their revelation of the fact that the capital which Demetrius built for himself was an Indian city and not a Greek one (p. 179).