The Greeks in Bactria and India c20.11

c20.11

This theory would imply that the prince of a rude coin-mould found at Seleuceia,³ who wears both kausia and diadem, is not identical with the prince of the seal-impression, with whom McDowell was inclined to identify him.⁴ The identity seems to me more than questionable; so far as can be judged by the coin-mould as illustrated, the features of the two men bear little resemblance, and the half-obliterated type of the coin-mould is certainly not the well-known type of Demetrius, Heracles standing upright and crowning himself, as McDowell thought;⁵ the club over the left shoulder is absent, and the figure is not standing upright at all but *leaning* on some object (? a pillar) as large as itself; it is no known Graeco-Bactrian type. The prince of the coin-mould might be some refugee to whom some Seleucid gave a little principality for his living, as Ptolemy II did to Ptolemy ‘the Telmessian’⁶ or Antony to Monaeses;⁷ but it is entirely obscure.