The Greeks in Bactria and India c28.50

c28.50

One other dating must be considered, that of the Taxila duck vase inscription (*CII* p. 81 no. xxx), which as already mentioned is dated under the satrap Jihonika (Zeionises) in ‘Saka’ 191. The vase was undoubtedly buried when the Kushans took Sirkap, an event now dated with fair certainty to A.D. 60-64;³ but it is much worn, and Konow considers that it had had 20 to 25 years of usage before it was buried.⁴ If the Saca Era be rightly put c. 155 B.C., the vase was made c. A.D. 36, in the reign of Gondophares, some 24 to 28 years before it was buried, which confirms the dating I have come to. The inscription shows that, though Zeionises was a Parthian, a nephew of Gondophares, Gondophares’ Saca subjects still dated by their own Era.