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Archebius Dikaios Nikephoros "The Fair/Follower of the Dharma and Victorious" was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the area of Taxila
Taxila

Taxila is an important archaeological site in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It dates back to the Ancient Indian period and contains the ruins of the Gandhara city of Takshashila an important Vedanta/Hinduism and Buddhist centre of learning from the 6th century BCE...
. Osmund Bopearachchi dates him to circa 90-80 BCE, and R C Senior to about the same period. He was probably one of the last Indo-Greek kings before the Saka
Saka

The Sakas or Sacae were a population of Central Asian nomadic tribes speaking an eastern Iranian languages language....
 king Maues
Maues

Maues was an Indo-Scythian king from modern Afghanistan who reigned circa 85 BCE-60 BCE, and invaded the Indo-Greek territories of modern Pakistan....
 conquered Taxila, and a contemporary of Hermaeus in the west. He may have been a relative of Heliokles II
Heliokles II

Heliocles II Dikaios "the Righteous or the follower of Dharma" is thought to have been one of the later Indo-Greek kings and a relative of the Bactrian king Heliocles I....
, who used a similar reverse and also the title Dikaios.


ebius issued silver with diademed or helmeted king, sometimes in spear-throwing pose.






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Archebius Dikaios Nikephoros "The Fair/Follower of the Dharma and Victorious" was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the area of Taxila
Taxila

Taxila is an important archaeological site in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It dates back to the Ancient Indian period and contains the ruins of the Gandhara city of Takshashila an important Vedanta/Hinduism and Buddhist centre of learning from the 6th century BCE...
. Osmund Bopearachchi dates him to circa 90-80 BCE, and R C Senior to about the same period. He was probably one of the last Indo-Greek kings before the Saka
Saka

The Sakas or Sacae were a population of Central Asian nomadic tribes speaking an eastern Iranian languages language....
 king Maues
Maues

Maues was an Indo-Scythian king from modern Afghanistan who reigned circa 85 BCE-60 BCE, and invaded the Indo-Greek territories of modern Pakistan....
 conquered Taxila, and a contemporary of Hermaeus in the west. He may have been a relative of Heliokles II
Heliokles II

Heliocles II Dikaios "the Righteous or the follower of Dharma" is thought to have been one of the later Indo-Greek kings and a relative of the Bactrian king Heliocles I....
, who used a similar reverse and also the title Dikaios.


Coin types

Archebius issued silver with diademed or helmeted king, sometimes in spear-throwing pose. On the reverse is Zeus standing facing, holding a thunderbolt or on some issues an aegis.

Archebius also struck a rare series of Attic tetradrachms, found in Bactria.

He issued bronzes with an owl / Nike
Nike (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Nike , was a goddess who personified triumph throughout the ages of the ancient Greek culture. The Roman equivalent was Victoria ....
.

Preceded by:
(In Arachosia
Arachosia

Arachosia or Arachotae is the latinized form of Greek language name of an Achaemenid Empire and Seleucid Empire governorate in the eastern part of their respective empires, and that was inhabited by the Iranian peoples Arachosians or Arachoti ....
 and Gandhara
Gandhara

Gandhara is the name of an ancient kingdom , located in northern Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan. Gandhara was located mainly in the vale of Peshawar, the Potohar plateau and on the Kabul River....
)
Menander II
Menander II

Menander II "The Just" was an Indo-Greek King who ruled in the areas of Arachosia and Gandhara in the north of modern Pakistan....


(In Punjab
Punjab region

Punjab , also Panjab , is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. The "Five Rivers" are Beas River, Ravi River, Sutlej, Chenab and Jhelum River; all these are tributaries of the Indus river, Jhelum being the biggest one....
)
Artemidoros
Artemidoros

Artemidoros Aniketos was a king who ruled in the area of Gandhara and Pushkalavati in modern northern Pakistan and Afghanistan....
 Indo-Greek Ruler
(Arachosia
Arachosia

Arachosia or Arachotae is the latinized form of Greek language name of an Achaemenid Empire and Seleucid Empire governorate in the eastern part of their respective empires, and that was inhabited by the Iranian peoples Arachosians or Arachoti ....
, Gandhara
Gandhara

Gandhara is the name of an ancient kingdom , located in northern Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan. Gandhara was located mainly in the vale of Peshawar, the Potohar plateau and on the Kabul River....
, Punjab
Punjab region

Punjab , also Panjab , is a region straddling the border between India and Pakistan. The "Five Rivers" are Beas River, Ravi River, Sutlej, Chenab and Jhelum River; all these are tributaries of the Indus river, Jhelum being the biggest one....
)
(90-80 BCE)		 Succeeded by:
Indo-Scythian king:
Maues
Maues

Maues was an Indo-Scythian king from modern Afghanistan who reigned circa 85 BCE-60 BCE, and invaded the Indo-Greek territories of modern Pakistan....


Overstrikes

Archebius overstruck two coins of Peukolaos
Peukolaos

Peucolaus Soter Dikaios was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in the area of Gandhara c. 90 BCE. His reign was probably short and insignificant, since he left only a few coins, but the relations of the latter Indo-Greek kings remain largely obscure....
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