- Heraios
Heraios (often read as Heraus, Heraos, Miaos) was a clan chief of the
Kushans (reign: 1-30 CE), one of the five constituent tribes of theYuezhi confederacy inBactria in the early first century CE, roughly at the time when the Kushans were starting their invasion of India.Silver coins were made in the
Hellenistic style and used the Greek writing. The reverse shows the winged Greek god of victory Nike holding out a wreath over the clan chief mounted on a horse. The clan chief wears a tunic and has a large bow on the side. The portrait shows Heraios with a markedartificial skull deformation , a characteristic of several Kushan portraits and sculptures of the 1st century CE.On the coins, the clan chief's name appears as "ΗΛΟΥ" or ""ΗΙΛΟΥ", which has been variously transliterated as "Ilou", "Maou" or "Miaou".
External links
* [http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/kushan/heraios.html A Comparison of Images of Kushans from Coins and Sculpture]
* [http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/kushan/kushan.html Kushan Empire coins]
* [http://www.coinarchives.com/a/results.php?results=100&search=Heraios Coins of Heraios]
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