A Bactrian King Theophilos?
However, there is a wholly different, and very rare, Attic coinage of a king Theophilos. Found in Bactria, these coins feature a reverse with a seated Athena with Nike, a different title Autokrator "Autocrat King", and also a separate monogram. Although this is not a very common occurrence on Indo-Greek coins, the coins of Theophilos have generally been accepted as belonging to one unique king. Bopearachchi has supported this proposition by pointing at the similarity between the portraits and the identical treatment of the diadem (one end straight, one end crooked).
Against this, Jakobsson argues that the coins issued by the later Indo-Greek kings for export into Bactria were consistently similar to these kings' regular Indian coinage. Consequently, the coins of Theophilos Autokrator were not such export issues, but should belong to a Bactrian ruler. Jakobsson suggests that Theophilos Autokrator was a Bactrian princelet who briefly maintained himself in some part of Bactria, after the Hellenistic kingdom there had been vanquished by nomads, presumably in the 120s BCE.
| Preceded by: Diomedes |
Indo-Greek Ruler (Paropamisadae) (c. 90 BCE) |
Succeeded by: Nicias |
| INDO-GREEK KINGS AND THEIR TERRITORIES Based on Bopearachchi (1991) |
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| Territories/ Dates |
PAROPAMISADE |
ARACHOSIA | GANDHARA | WESTERN PUNJAB | EASTERN PUNJAB | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200–190 BCE | Demetrius I | |||||||||||
| 190–180 BCE | Agathocles | Pantaleon | ||||||||||
| 185–170 BCE | Antimachus I | |||||||||||
| 180–160 BCE | Apollodotus I | |||||||||||
| 175–170 BCE | Demetrius II | |||||||||||
| 160–155 BCE | Antimachus II | |||||||||||
| 170–145 BCE | Eucratides | |||||||||||
| 155–130 BCE | Menander I | |||||||||||
| 130–120 BCE | Zoilos I | Agathokleia | ||||||||||
| 120–110 BCE | Lysias | Strato I | ||||||||||
| 110–100 BCE | Antialcidas | Heliokles II | ||||||||||
| 100 BCE | Polyxenios | Demetrius III | ||||||||||
| 100–95 BCE | Philoxenus | |||||||||||
| 95–90 BCE | Diomedes | Amyntas | Epander | |||||||||
| 90 BCE | Theophilos | Peukolaos | Thraso | |||||||||
| 90–85 BCE | Nicias | Menander II | Artemidoros | |||||||||
| 90–70 BCE | Hermaeus | Archebios | ||||||||||
| Yuezhi tribes | Maues (Indo-Scythian) | |||||||||||
| 75–70 BCE | Telephos | Apollodotus II | ||||||||||
| 65–55 BCE | Hippostratos | Dionysios | ||||||||||
| 55–35 BCE | Azes I (Indo-Scythian) | Zoilos II | ||||||||||
| 55–35 BCE | Apollophanes | |||||||||||
| 25 BCE – 10 CE | Strato II & III | |||||||||||
| Rajuvula (Indo-Scythian) | ||||||||||||
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