[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c9.s2.219 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.219 The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.219 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.219) ² Now certain: Koschaker \*op. cit.\* pp. 70, 74, 83; Robert \*op. cit.\* p. 146. The three complete manumissions of a slave girl give her age in every case as ‘about 30’, ὡς ἐτῶν λ’. I fear that I cannot agree with Robert that this is coincidence. It was unusual, though not unknown, to give the slave’s age in manumission documents, for nothing turned on it; there must have been a reason why the age was always given at Susa, and in my view these identical ages point to a legal fiction; if we could explain it we should know the process by which at Susa the Greeks turned dedication into manumission. - [Previous: c9.s2.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.218) - [Next: c9.s2.220](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.220) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.219) · Pramāṇa