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XXVII. An Inscription from Besnager

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

J. F. Fleet
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The circumstances in which this inscription has been discovered are stated by Mr. Marshall on p. 1053 f. above; and a reproduction of it is given in Plate I, a, with a reading and translation by Dr. Bloch. I edit the record, as an accompaniment to Mr. Marshall's remarks, from a photograph and an ink-impression received from him: owing, however, to the manner in which the record had been covered with paint, the ink-impression does not help much beyond the photograph. The writing covers an area about 1 ft. 10 in. wide by 1 ft. 8½ in. high. The size of the letters, that is, of those which are formed between the top and bottom lines of writing without any projections above or below, ranges from about 1⅛ to 1⅞ inches.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , October 1909 , pp. 1087 - 1092
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1909

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References

page 1087 note 1 Archæol. Surv. Ind., vol. 10, p. 36: and see the map, plate 1.Google Scholar

page 1088 note 1 Edited by me in Gupta Inscriptions, Corpus Inseriptionum Indicarum, vol. 3, pp. 21, 34, 258.Google Scholar

page 1088 note 2 For clear illustrations, not hand-drawn, see Gardner, , Coins of the Greek and Scythic Kings of Bactria and IndiaGoogle Scholar, plate 7, figs. 9 to 14; Smith, , Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, vol. 1, plate 3, figs. 7, 8. I understand that the really correct form of the name is Antalkidas.Google Scholar

page 1089 note 1 Square brackets are used to mark syllables, or parts of them, which in the original are illegible, seriously damaged, or imperfectly formed.