Indo-Parthian AR from Sind
Indo-Parthian AR from Sind in Senior ISCH
Almost all examples found at Taxila during the excavations there and published by Marshall; a coin of Senior 252 variety was found at a Buddhist temple at Saudpur in Sind and published in 1914. [from Mitchiner ISC page 746]
| Indo-Parthian AR from Sind in Senior ISCH | ||||||||
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| Senior type | Ruler | Image | Line Drawing | Description | Legend | Symbol | Monograms | Notes |
| 250.1 | Satavastres | ![]() |
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Bust left wearing tiara w/Gondopharid symbol/Winged Nike right with palm and wreath | ![]() Maharajasa....... Tratarasa Satavastrasa |
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Bust left wearing tiara w/Gondopharid symbol/Winged Nike right with palm and wreath | ![]() Maharajasa....... Tratarasa Satavastrasa |
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| 251.1 | [uncertain] | ![]() |
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Bust left wearing tiara w/symbol (?)/Winged Nike right with palm and wreath | ![]() Maharajasa....... Tratarasa Gudanasa ? (end of legend read by Joe Cribb as Saduvastrasa) |
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Overstruck on a Nahapana drachm. (Also undertype of Nahapana overstrike. See Cribb: Numismatic Evidence for the Date of the 'Periplus', Indian Numismatics, History, Art and Culture (1992). |
| 251.2 | Similar; different tiara and diadem ties | ![]() |
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| "249.1" (from ONS 170) |
Agata (?) | ![]() |
Bust left wearing tiara w/Gondopharid symbol/Winged Nike right with palm and wreath | BACIA....EWN GA ....rajasa Agatasa .... (?) |
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| 252.1 | Sarpedones | ![]() |
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Bust left wearing tiara w/star; beard tied/Nike w/o wings left with palm and wreath | ![]() Maharajasa Rajarajasa Tratarasa Dhramiasa Sarpadanasa |
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| 252.2 | Similar. | ![]() |
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| 252.3 | ![]() |
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Bust left wearing tiara (?); beard tied/Nike w/o wings left with palm and wreath | ![]() Bopearachchi ONS 169: Maharaja[sa] ........ [Dhra]miasa Sarpadanasa |
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Osmund Bopearachchi and Harry Falk correct Senior's reading of Sabedanasa to Sa rpa da na sa in ONS Newsletter 169 (2001). Control similar to Azes 93.3 (King mounted right with spear/Zeus Nikephoros - but "Unusual Transitional Type") |
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| B4.1Di | Kujula Kadphises | ![]() |
Bust left wearing tiara (?)/Winged Nike left with palm and wreath | ![]() Maharajasa Rajatirajasa Khoshanasa Kuyula...? |
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| B4.1Dii | ![]() |
Bust left wearing tiara (?)/Winged Nike left with palm and wreath | Similar to above | ![]() |
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Bust left wearing tiara (?)/Winged Nike right with palm and wreath | Similar to above | ![]() |
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| 245.1i | 'Sases' | ![]() |
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Bust left wearing tiara w/Gondopharid symbol/Winged Nike left with palm and wreath | ![]() Maharajasa Aspabhrataputrasa Tratarasa (sasa)? |
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| 245.1ii | ![]() |
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Overstruck on Nahapana drachm. (Also struck over Senior 251.1 [probably Satavastres]). | |||
| 245.2 | Similar; no Bhu | ....rasa Tratarasa Dhramikasa .... | ![]() |
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Mitchiner's (his numbers) series goes like: 1104 Sases (45-60 AD); 1105 Sorpedonus (60 AD); 1106-1107 Abdagases [Sarpedones, Satavastres] (55-100/110 AD); 1108-1109 Satavastra (100 AD); 1110 Wima Kadphises [Kujula Kadphises] (100-128 AD)
Senior's (his numbers) series goes like: Sarpedones (252), Satavastres (250), Uncertain (251), Kujula Kadphises (B4), Sases (245)
Bhu as control on post-Azes 175.600-613 and Itravasu 177.10-25.
Under Construction - April, 2005
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