The Greeks in Bactria and India c28.45

c28.45

⁴ The legend on these coins, βασιλέως βασιλέων ᾿Αρσάκου θεοπάτορος εὐεργέτου ἐπιφανοῦς φιλέλληνος, is not one of those which Wroth in BMC Parthia assigned to Mithridates II, though that king employed the last three titles; θεοπάτορος (which need mean no more than the Kushan devaputra, ‘Son of Heaven’) is taken from the legend of his father Artabanus II (Artabanus I, Wroth). It means that Mithridates’ titles were not yet settled and that the Suren’s Greek engraver in the Far East gave him a good selection. On the confusion of the Parthian legends of this period and the gradual formation of the later stereotyped legend see Herzfeld, Sakastan pp. 46–8.