The Greeks in Bactria and India c24.30

c24.30

There is still another unknown king who may belong to the same dynasty as Goaisos. In 1935 J. M. Unvala published sixty chalkoi from Susa with the legend ‘Of king Tigraios’,² which incidentally revealed that a coin of this king from Susa was already known though the name was corrupt.³ The reverse types include the Ptolemaic eagle, an Artemis, a term, a winged thunderbolt, a boar’s head, and a palm, some of which are Seleucid, while the last three are also Graeco-Indian of the second century B.C. Unvala’s hypothesis that Tigraios was Molon has nothing to recommend it; apart from the silence of Polybius, Molon could not have taken and used a barbarian name. The coin-types point to an international trade centre having definite relations with Greek India;⁴ and as coins from Omana would naturally appear at Susa, Tigraios is probably another of the lost kings of the Amanis kingdom, earlier than Goaisos.