Major Ton's Account of Greek, Parthian, and Hindu Medals. 339 



On the reverse are two horsemen with the Bactrian tiara, with palm 

 branches and the sarissa, or long spear, of the Macedonians : the inscription 

 is, " of the great King Eucratides," epoch 108. These horsemen are 

 either Greeks in the army of Eucratides, or BaCtrians, accustomed to the 

 Macedonian discipline, bearing the sarissa, as Macedonians, the tiara, as 

 Bactrians.* 



Unfortunately, there are but a few detached letters, and those of titles ; 

 there is also a strange mixture of Grecian and Parthian costume and 

 symbol, especially the sacerdotal instrument for feeding the sacred fire. 

 The figure on the reverse, whether on a horse or camel, has a hawk perched 

 on the extended arm. 



Nos. 3 and 4 of the first series, are decidedly of Greek princes, but it is 

 to be supposed that they are too mutilated to furnish any useful light. 

 The date of No. 3 is half destroyed, but the numeral N, answering to 50, 

 remains. The medal is altogether in good preservation, having the bust 

 on one side, and on the reverse Apollo armed with a dart, as in that of 

 Apollodotus, and a cornucopia at his right. 



Eucratides the Second, in the 110th of the Bactrian era, succeeded to 

 the throne by the murder of his father ; but he did not long enjoy it. 

 One hundred and twenty years after its foundation, this kingdom fell.t 

 The parricide was slain during an invasion of the Scythians, or Getes, of 

 the Jaxartes on one side, and the Parthians on the other. The Getes 

 remained in possession of the country they had occupied, till they were, 

 in their turn, expelled by the Huns. Then many of them mcved eastward. 

 Strabo has left us the names of these Getic or Scythic tribes, who aided in 

 the overthrow, viz. Asi, or Aspi ; Sacce Tachari. The Sdc'hd Rajputs, the 

 Tdks of Northern India : the Getes, or Jits, may be traced by inscriptions 

 and other evidence. 



As to the Parthian and Scythic princes who ruled in India, I have 

 already spoken of those who had their residence at Minagara, on the 

 Indus; the Indo-Scythic princes of India, mentioned by De Guignes, 

 Cosmos, Gibbon, and others. 



Mithridates fone of the Arsacidac, or Parthian sovereigns), who made 

 Eucratides tributary previously to the total overthrow of the Bactrian 



• Bayer, sect. xi. second series. f .'\nte C. 134. 



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