Polyxenus Epiphanes Soter | |
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![]() Portrait Polyxenus. | |
Indo-Greek king | |
Reign | c. 100 BCE |
Burial |
Polyxenus Epiphanes Soter (Ancient Greek:Πολύξενος Ἐπιφανῆς Σωτήρ,romanized: Polyxenos Epiphanēs Sōtēr, "Polyxenus the Illustrious Saviour") was anIndo-Greek king who ruled briefly in westernPunjab orGandhara.
Osmund Bopearachchi places Polyxenus c. 100 BCE[1] and R. C. Senior c. 85–80 BCE.
Polyxenus, whose portraits depict a diademed young man, struck silver coins which closely resemble those ofStrato I. Both kings used the epithetsSoterEpiphanes and the reverse of Athena Alcidemus (fightingPallas Athene), the emblem of the dynasty ofMenander I. Polyxenus also struck bronzes with Athena on the obverse and heraegis on the reverse. He issued no Attic silver.
His bronzes depict the head of Athena with a reverse of heraegis.
Polyxenus' coins are few and feature only three monograms: these he shares with Strato I as well asHeliocles II andArchebius, according to Bopearachchi and RC Senior.
He was therefore likely to have been a brief contestant for power in the central Indo-Greek kingdom after the presumably violent death of Straton I, who was possibly his father.
Preceded by Heliocles II (?) | Indo-Greek ruler inParopamisade,Arachosia c. 100 BCE | Succeeded by |
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