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Art. XIII.—Two Notes on Indian Numismatics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

E. J. Rapson
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The regular Greek inscription on the coins of Hermaeus is ΒΑΣι٨ΕΩΣ ΣΩТΗΡΟΣ | ΕΡΜΑ;ΙΟΥ; but, on some of his bronze coins, and on the whole bronze series issued by him conjointly with Kujula Kadphises, there appears an inscription which differs from this in two respects— (1) the substitution of ΣТΗΡΟΣ for ΣΩТΗΡΟΣ, and (2) the addition of the syllable Σ;Υ.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 1897 , pp. 319 - 324
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1897

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References

page 319 note 1 Gardner, , B.M. Cat., p. 65Google Scholar, Hermaeus, Nos. 45–50; and p. 120, Hermaeus and Kadphises I.

page 319 note 2 Journal Asiatique, 1889 (vol. xiii, 8th series), p. 370Google Scholar.

page 320 note 1 Lassen, , Ind. Alt., ii, p. 363Google Scholar , note 1, as = Śaka, or id., p. 389, as = Yueh-chi; Cunningham, , Num. Chron. 1892, p. 46Google Scholar, as = Σνλλενńς; Senart, Journ. As. (l.c.), as = Σνρον.

page 320 note 2 Oldenberg, , Zeit.f. Num. 1881, p. 298, note 1Google Scholar.

page 320 note 3 It would scarcely then have been possible to invent the King Sy-Hermaeus, who appears in some of the earlier numismatic works as the successor of Hermaeus.

page 321 note 1 Gardner, , B.M. Cat., p. 123Google Scholar.

page 321 note 2 In this case, again, it has been proposed, in direct opposition to the unanimous testimony of the coins, to regard XOPANCY as an engraver's mistake for XOPANOY. This tendency to tamper with documents cannot be too strongly deprecated.

page 322 note 1 Johannson, , Der dialekte der sogen. Shābāzgarhi-redaktion des 14 edicte Atśoka's (Actes du 8me Congrès Inter, des Orientalistes: section ii, 1er fasc., p. 129)Google Scholar, quotes the form sr(e)stamatias representing the Sk. śreṣṭha-.

page 322 note 2 Babylonian and Oriental Record, vol. i, p. 155, “Zoroastrian Deities on Indo-Scythian Coins.”

page 323 note 1 Drouin, , Revue Numismatique, 1888, p. 207Google Scholar; followed by Cunningham, , Num. Chron. 1892, p. 62Google Scholar.

page 323 note 2 Quoted by Drouin (l.e.).

page 323 note 3 E.g. Ariana Antiqua, plate xii, 4, etc.

page 324 note 1 This coin is published by Gardner, , B.M. Cat., “Bazodeo,” No. 3 (p. 159)Google Scholar, but without any notice of its remarkable inscription.