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in Drangiana, as here only a maritime victory, of which he 

 boasts, can have taken place.* To this may be added the 

 following : — ^The Chinese, by reporting, that the kings of Kipin 

 represented a horseman on their coins, alluded probably them- 

 selves only to the Scythian kings; these, however, had cer- 

 tainly adopted the custom from their predecessors. 



As now Antimachos, as well as his successor Philoxenos, repre- 

 sent themselves as horsemen, we venture to refer them to Kipin ; 

 likewise the humped bull of the latter king alludes to Kipin. 

 This country moreover is Sakastane, or Segistan of a later period. 



Antialkidesf and his successor Lysias lay claims to having 

 reigned in Cabul and in its neighbourhood ; if we have correctly 

 interpreted the report of Justin, they must have possessed, 

 besides Cabul, a part of Arachosia. 



Amyntas and Archelios must perhaps also be classed in these 

 two kingdoms. 



The empires founded by Antimachos and Antialkides, pro- 

 bably existed but a short time; the first seems to have origi- 

 nated at the death of Demetrios, the second after the murder 

 of Eukratides. We can assign to them no longer existence than 

 to the year 126 b. c, when the Saces settled themselves in 

 Kipin ; and scarcely even to that period, as the Parthians had 

 already taken possession of the Bactrian empire. In the pas- 

 sage in which the last struggle of the Bactrians against the 

 Parthians is mentioned, Elymeans are indeed only noticed 

 besides Syrians, and no Drangians or Arachosians. The small 

 number of royal names also corroborate this short duration. 



It would be too doubtful a measure to extend the use of 

 Cabulian letters to Drangiana. 



* Mr. R. R. p. 18, thinks, he may have assisted Antiochus IV. on 

 occasion of a victory over the Egyptians ; but this appears hardly possible, 

 even if he had reigned on the Indus. 



t Mr. Mionnet has published (VIII. 483, 520,) a coin of Antialkides, before 

 unknown. Obverse : image of the king vrith the Causia, and the upper 

 part of the Chlamys. Reverse : Jupiter seated, holding in his right hand a 

 Victory vrith a Palm, in the left hand a spear, placed across the shoulders ; 

 on the right hand near his seat an elephant, who holds a crown in its 

 elevated trunk. Antialkides perhaps obtained the crown by his partici- 

 pating in an Indian expedition. 



