178

OF THE

Metal
No.

Obverse

Be verse

HERMAIOS WITH KUJULA KADPHISES

(a) Type: bust of Hermaios and Herakles; copper, round

Herakles facing, with lion/s skin
on L arm; club resting on ground,
in r. hand.

Kh. legend Kujula Kasasa
Kusana, ya[vugasa dhramathidasa]
PL XVII.

G.B.

JB
I1
x_v _t7^-, ------- ^
Bust of Hermaios, diademed, to r. AbOYe, BACiAEnZ ZTHPDZ ZY
Below, EPMAIDY

W. 115.
S. -9.

2
3?
S. -9.

a
W. 139.
S. -9.

4
W. 97. S. -9.

5
W. 156. S. -95,

6-
?> S. -9.

1 On the supposition that ZTHPDZ is a contraction of Z-QTHPOZ? Cunningham
offered a conjectural explanation of the puzzling particle ZY, which he tended to regard
as a prefix to the name EPMA1QY—-p- 46 of Coins of the Kushaw. But Professor E. J.
Kapson has rightly pointed out that 2EY is really attached to 2THPDZ? &&d discusses
the possibility of a single epithet ZTHPOZZY? corresponding to some Kharosthi word-
see f Two Notes on Indian NumismaticsJ, JM.A.S,, 1897.