The disk is now in the national museum in Kabul. The disk or plaque is from the 2 nd century BC, measures 25 cm in diameter and is partially gilded. Her roots are from the area of the Bactrian Kingdom from where Greek explorers brought her stories back and incorporated it into Greek culture. She was believed to be the mother of the mountains. Silver drachm depicting king on his galloping horse, and on reverse: winged Nike standing left, holding wreath and palm. The Bactrian Disk depicts and images of the goddess Cybele in her chariot drawn by lions towards a sacrifice. Head ), Hair - Dressing of Roman ladies illustrated on coins, Lady Evans, Roman. A great gift idea for an ancient civilizations enthusiast The Earliest Graeco - Bactrian and Graeco - Indian Coins ( B.V.A design use of an actual artifact as the basis.It has ultra-high relief and interesting small details of the original disk and other finds from the Bactrian Kingdom On the edge are the inscriptions: “Cybele and Nike Disk” (the name) and “2021” (the year of issue) and “Ai Khanoum” the place it was found. The background is filled with ancient Greco-Bactrian writings. Around the disc are various Bactrian carvings and sculptures also found at the place of the old Bactrian Kingdom. The amazing coin depicts the Bactrian Cybele disk in ultra high relief with all its characteristics including the cracks and dents how archaeologists found it. Batman v Superman- Dawn of Justice 2016.Note in Phase III a new type has been published since this article was written (it is noted in the live catalogue but not in the paper). Oreshnikov.2 At that time there were fifteen Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek coins, whose provenance is unknown.3 With the University collection as a starting point, the Museum gradually ac- quired a distinguished collection of paintings, drawings and of various anti- quities including coins. project working to create a new typology of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek coinage. The paper here is not paginated as it is a pdf of the original paper rather than an offprint. Greek coins from this collection were published in 1891 by A.V. My main research interests are Greek and Roman coins as well as the. when Diodotus became independent from Selencid Empire. The application of graph theory to die studies is still very basic (using only the simplest graph theory concepts) and requires much more detailed working through. The Bactrian and Indo Greek Coins began to be issued from Circa. At the time this was the only three work-station arrangement that had been published predating Carroccio's publication on 'Parallel Striking Reconstruction.' in 2011 and at the time I had not seen the year 3 Herod types studied by Ariel and Fontanille and for which I published a clearer description of the analysis in 2012. This is also the article in which I introduce the concepts of non-planar graphs for establishing the existence of more than two work stations. It also shows how with the exception of the first gold issue the images of the Kushan god Wesho derive from the copper coinage. Wima was the first Kushan Emperor to issue gold and the study shows that this began as one-off productions in the same tradition as earlier NW India, Central Asian gold issues and only became a regular production at the end of his reign. The article re-orders the coins and lays out the mint structure based on the die study. "This includes a die corpus of the coins of Wima Kadphises (a 'live' version is available at the link) as well as a discussion of the order of the die corpus.
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