The Greeks in Bactria and India c24.25

c24.25

My suggestion is that the Hellenistic notices of the Amanis country in Pliny, the need of an intermediary on the Iranian coast for the India-Babylonia trade, the epithet Regia applied to Harmozia, the account of Omana, the unknown fate of the Carmanian satrap, and this unique coin, are all connected, and that Bellaios, sometime general of the Carmanian satrapy (or that general’s descendant), ruled a little kingdom on the Amanis river with a good sea-port and capital on the Gulf of Ormuz, a kingdom which must sooner or later have become a vassal of Parthia and had apparently foundered before the date of the Periplus (middle of the first century A.D.). There may be other traces of it beside the coin.