1840.] from Bactrian and Indo-Scythian coins. 643 



were mentioned of Eukratides, not in correspondence with 

 the victorious king of this name; hence he concluded^ the 

 name of his son^ successor, and murderer_, was the same.* 

 But that the son and parricide did bear the same name, is 

 not conclusively established by authorities (of which hereaf- 

 ter); while Mr. Muellerf objects to this view from the very 

 reason, that, according to the arrangement of M. R. R., this 

 very Eukratides, known to us as a parricide, was called ^^the 

 Great.^^ There occur indeed two specimens, one of which has 

 also native legends. I here describe the purely Greek one alone, 

 postponing my own view for the historic examination. 



Diademed head of the king; reverse, a naked Apollo crowned 

 with laurel, standing with one hand leaning on a bow, in the 

 other an arrow. Legend BASI AEQ2 EYKPATIA0Y4 This 

 type never has a native legend. On other coins a head of 

 Apollo with a laurel wreath ; on the reverse, a horse with the 

 same legend in Greek alone. § 



The coins with the Dioscuri on horseback, with the title of 

 '^ Great King,^^ and which are partly of purely Greek and 

 some with a native legend, are assigned to Eukratides 11. 



This type of the Dioscuri, however, likewise occurs with 

 the simple Greek legend, BA2IAEQ2 EYKPATIAOY,|| and 

 without the native character, which only appears, when the Greek 

 has the word MEFAAOY. The Dioscuri on horseback have 

 sometimes a helmeted, and sometimes a diademed head of the 

 king; those with the caps of the Dioscuri only a diademed head, 

 with the title either simple, or at length.^ 



It is evident, that neither the difference between ^^ king" and 

 ^^ Great King,^^ nor the native legend, affords any criterion for 

 assigning the type of the Dioscuri to the son. There remains 

 the difference in the features of the king, which may be laid to 

 a difference in age. On the native legend we shall remark 

 hereafter. 



* p. 95. t p. 205 



: J. des Sav. p. 386, I. No. 5. 



§ R. R. II. 60. II A. T. IV. pi. XXV. No. 6. 7. 



f A. T. V. pi. XLvi. No. 10. No. li., 



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