Big Red Weirdos

[Diane]

Davidsch

Following your link, I was interested to see that you refer to a certain coin.

I love these co-incidences.  I happened to refer to the same region and one of the Kushan-period coins in a post written some time ago.  For those who'd like some easy background, here's the link to that post  - part of my analysis of the map on that "folio formerly known as f.86v"

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For those short of time,
here's just the picture:
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and, minus all its context and relevance to that section of the map, the accompanying paragraph:

"In regard to Mathura, I might mention a Kushan king who ruled 191 AD to c.225 AD, the last to rule before the opening of the Sassanid period in Persia, and who was named Vasudeva I. On his coins are already elements of older Persian practice mingled with those of   the Greco-Indian world. A similar combination infuses the older strand of imagery in ms Beinecke 408,  as these posts endeavour to describe and set in context".

the ensuing four years' work would only lead me to modify that statement by saying it applies chiefly to the sections which contain the (astronomical/tyche) 'ladies'.