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| 正面描述 | The obverse depicts the Indo-Scythian king Azilises on horseback, riding to the right, shown in a commanding equestrian pose with a spear held upright in his right hand. The king wears a belted tunic and riding attire characteristic of Scythian royal iconography. A Greek legend encircles the central device along the periphery of the flan, partially visible on this irregular hammered flan. The style reflects the Hellenistic artistic tradition adapted within the Indo-Scythian cultural milieu, combining Greek compositional conventions with Central Asian subject matter. |
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| 正面文字 | Greek |
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Azilises ruled the Indo-Scythian kingdom during a period of contested succession, and his precise chronological relationship to Azes I remains genuinely unresolved — scholars continue to debate whether the two kings overlapped, succeeded one another directly, or represent parallel regional rulers. His tetradrachms were struck across multiple mints in the Gandhara and Taxila regions, adapting the Attic weight standard that Greek Bactrian predecessors had established generations earlier. The bilingual Greek-Kharoshthi format was by this reign a political necessity rather than a novelty, reflecting a multilingual administrative reality on the ground.