Antimachus I.
Antimachus I was a Greco-Bactrian king. He is known almost exclusively from his coins. It is assumed, based on his portrait and his commemorative coins, that he belonged to the family of Euthydemus I and was perhaps even his son and ruled as his vassal. His reign is tentatively around 185 to 170 BC. BC. His rulership is disputed and it has been suggested that he ruled not in Bactria but in an area between Bactria and India. There he was perhaps the successor of Agathocles . Like the latter, Antimachus I minted commemorative coins showing his image and that of previous rulers, in his case Diodotos I and Euthydemus I. A notable document is a tax receipt on parchment from Bactria, on which he, along with another Antimachus and an Eumenes is called. The document, now in Oxford, is dated its fourth year. The document is purchased. The original location is unknown.
literature
- William W. Tarn: The Greeks in Bactria and India. 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1951, pp. 75, 88-92, 448
- John Rea, Robert C. Senior, Adrian S. Hollis: A tax receipt from Hellenistic Bactria. In: Journal of Papyrology and Epigraphy. Vol. 104, 1994, pp. 261-280, digital version (PDF; 1.14 MB).
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| SURNAME | Antimachus I. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | King of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd century BC BC or 1st century BC Chr. |