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 Kushan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Silver tetradrachm of Kushan king Heraios (1–30) in Greco-Bactrian style, with horseman crowned by the Greek goddess of victory Nike.
Heraios was probably the first of the Kushan kings.
Heraios was probably the father of Kujula Kadphises.
en.encyclopediahome.com /wiki/Kushan   (2426 words)

  
 Kushan Empire - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Silver tetradrachm of Kushan king Heraios (1-30 CE) in Greco-Bactrian style, with horseman crowned by the Greek goddess of victory Nike.
Greek legend: TVPANNOVOTOΣ HΛOV - ΣΛNΛB - KOÞÞANOY "The Tyrant Heraios, Sanav, of the Kushans".
At the beginning of the 1st century, during the reign of Kujula Kadphises, the Kushans suffered a strong setback, as a large part of their empire was invaded by the Parthians.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Kushans   (1872 words)

  
 Heraios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rev: Horse-mounted King, crowned with a wreath by the Greek goddess of victory Nike.
Greek legend: ΤΥΡΑΝΝΟΥΟΤΟΣ ΗΛΟΥ - ΣΑΝΑΒ - ΚΟϷϷΑΝΟΥ "The Tyrant Heraios, Sanav (meaning unknown), of the Kushans".
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 the Yuezhi confederacy in Bactria in the early first century CE, roughly at the time when the Kushans were starting their invasion of India.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heraios   (212 words)

  
 Heraios - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Heraios or Heraus (reign: 1-30 CE) was a clan chief of the Kushans, one of the five constituent tribes of the Yuezhi confederacy in Bactria in the early first century CE, roughly at the time when the Kushans were starting their invasion of India.
His coins were made in the Hellenistic style and used the Greek writing.
The portrait shows Heraios with a marked artificial deformation of the skull, a characteristic of several Kushan portraits and sculptures of the 1st century CE.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Heraios   (275 words)

  
 Kushan_empire info here at en.articles-on-parenting.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Greek legend: ΤVΡΑΝΝΟVΟΤΟΣ ΗΛΟV - ΣΛΝΛΒ - ΚΟÞÞΑΝΟΥ "Of the Tyrant Heraios, Sanav, the Kushan" (the plan of "Sanav" is unknown).
Heraios was practicably the numero uno of the Kushan kings.
Heraios was practicably the papa of Kujula Kadphises.
en.articles-on-parenting.info /Kushan_Empire   (2864 words)

  
 The COININDIA Coin Galleries: Heraios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The coins traditionally assigned to "Heraios," the Kushan, appear to be the first Kushan coins.
The attribution of the Heraios coins to Kujula is attractive, since we had no clear idea who "Heraios" the Kushan was, and Cribb's argument is gaining wide acceptance.
The normal translation of the legend is: Of the Tyrant (the one who rules by his own power), Heraios, the Kushan.
home.comcast.net /~pankajtandon/galleries-heraios.html   (477 words)

  
 Heraios Did You Mean heraios?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Silver tetradrachm of Kushan king Heraios (1a href="30.html" title="30">30 CE) in Greco-Bactrian style.
H?OV - ??N?B - KOÞÞANOY "The Tyrant Heraios, Sanav (meaning unknown), of the Kushans".
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www.did-you-mean.com /Heraios.html   (301 words)

  
 The COININDIA Coin Galleries: Kujula Kadphises   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
We don't know for sure if the coins traditionally assigned to Heraios were issued by Kujula Kadphises.
Sometime in the first half of the first century, he issued coins derived from the AE tetradrachms of the Indo-Greek king Hermaios.
Note that Mitchiner says the coin carries no legend, but this specimen clearly shows traces of legends on both the obverse and the reverse.
home.comcast.net /~pankajtandon/galleries-kujula.html   (431 words)

  
 InfoHub - Pages of Chinese history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The first true Kushan king was Heraios, who ruled 1-30 A.D. The Yueh-chi, who had founded this state, because very much Hellenized.
For example, they adopted the Greek alphabet and began using it to write their language.
His reign was 30-80 A.D. He is believed to have been the son of Heraios.
www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=3437   (767 words)

  
 Goddess Worship in Ancient Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A fragmentary calendar from the first half of the fifth century was inscribed, "for Zeus Heraios a pig".
This inscription is made during the month of Gamelion which corresponds with the end of January.
This implies that Zeus was perceived as Hera’s consort and of secondary importance(Blundell 17).
www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~clit387/Worship.html   (10989 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Heraios: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
for the names of months to be derived from divinities (Heraios from Hera; Hestiaios from Hestia, goddess of the hearth),...
derives the name of Heraia in Arcadia from a founder Heraios, though it is quite obviously the city of Hera.
occasions he would be called the Zeus of Hera (Zeus Heraios) or the Zeus of Demeter (Zeus Damatrios).
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Heraios&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1   (850 words)

  
 Kushan Empire
The Yuezhi reached the Hellenic kingdom of Greco-Bactria, in the Bactrian territory (northernmost Afghanistan and Uzbekistan) around 135 BC, and displaced the Greek dynasties there, who resettled in India in the western part of the Indo-Greek Kingdom.
Silver tetradrachm of Kushan king Heraios (1-30 AD) in Greco-Bactrian style, with horseman crowned by the Greek goddess of victory Nike.
In the following century, charismatic leaders welded the group into a tight confederation.
www.askfactmaster.com /Kushan   (795 words)

  
 KushanEmpire.htm
At the present time the knowledge about start of Kushan empire is not clear.
However, there is some evidence Heraios was the first ruler of Kushans around the 1st century CE.
Kushans ruled this area for next 300 years.
worldcoincatalog.com /AC/C3/India/KushanEmpire/KushanEmpire.htm   (153 words)

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