Historical Baktrian Army Composition

[keravnos]

I personally think that rather than retreating in the mountains, Greek survivors of Baktria who could ventured into present day Pakistan and NW India, joining the ever feuding Eastern and Western IndoGreek Kingdom in what is now known as Punjab, and all along the Kophen river from present day Kabul and well into Pakistan. It is considered that Eukratides II did so, leaving Baktria for Indus upper valley, aka Punjab. There they lasted until about CE 10, before succumbing to IndoSaka. .

Their descendants, subjects of the Kushan empire, were mostly Buddhists and helped create works of art as the following...

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=gandhara

and especially the following which helped preserve their ancestry until they were completely Indianised. The Atlas,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijapuri/2007337732/

and this, Gandharan Athena, most probably Athena Alkidemos-Ardorxo, a syncretic deity.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijapuri/2006534025/

Any budding artist willing and able to turn this Bactrian King
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijapur...99550/sizes/l/
into a pic we could use?

and a little bit of history,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocles
in coins,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijapur...7603201308814/
found in Taxila museum,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijapur...7603201308814/

[MeinPanzer]

I personally think that rather than retreating in the mountains, Greek survivors of Baktria who could ventured into present day Pakistan and NW India, joining the ever feuding Eastern and Western IndoGreek Kingdom in what is now known as Punjab, and all along the Kophen river from present day Kabul and well into Pakistan. It is considered that Eukratides II did so, leaving Baktria for Indus upper valley, aka Punjab. There they lasted until about CE 10, before succumbing to IndoSaka. .

Their descendants, subjects of the Kushan empire, were mostly Buddhists and helped create works of art as the following...

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=gandhara

and especially the following which helped preserve their ancestry until they were completely Indianised. The Atlas,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijapuri/2007337732/

and this, Gandharan Athena, most probably Athena Alkidemos-Ardorxo, a syncretic deity.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bijapuri/2006534025/

That's what I meant by "retreat into the mountains with the remnants of the state." Following the loss of Bactria, the remnants of the Graeco-Bactrian state transferred into the Hindo-Kush mountains, Arachosia, and northwestern India, with major new centres of power at Taxila and Begram. It makes sense that the majority of refugees would have moved first into the Hindu-Kush range immediately behind the plains of Balkh to flee the Saka onslaught, which is why I said that they would retreat into the mountains.