The Greeks in Bactria and India c28.39

c28.39

On the other hand, even if Antialcidas be brought down as late as 90 B.C., which is very improbable (p. 314), there is still a time-gap of about a generation between Antialcidas and Amyntas, with no Greek king except Telephus who can be placed there; is seems obvious that the rule at Kapisa of Telephus and Maues must come somewhere in this gap, which cannot begin later than *c.* 90 or end later than *c.* 60. The monograms then are fatal to any attempt to date Maues in the latter part of the first century B.C., like Herzfeld’s 32 B.C. or Jayaswal’s 42 B.C.; and they show, therefore, that the Era of the Taxila copperplate cannot be later than the reign of Mithridates I of Parthia.