https://tinyurl.com/yybgt4zm
![]()
![Image]()
Gold dinar, c. 128-150 CE
Weight: 8.01 gm., Diam: 20-21 mm., Die axis: 12 o'clock
Crowned, diademed king standing facing, holding spear and sacrificing at altar at left,
Bactrian legend around: þAONANOþAO KA ... NηþKI KOþANO
(King of Kings Kanishka Kushan) /
Four-armed Oesho (Shiva?) standing facing, head turned to left, nimbate, holding various attributes,
Bactrian legend right: OηþO, tamgha at left
Göbl 62
Gold dinar, c. 128-150 CEWeight: 8.01 gm., Diam: 20-21 mm., Die axis: 12 o'clock
Crowned, diademed king standing facing, holding spear and sacrificing at altar at left,
Bactrian legend around: þAONANOþAO KA ... NηþKI KOþANO
(King of Kings Kanishka Kushan) /
Four-armed Oesho (Shiva?) standing facing, head turned to left, nimbate, holding various attributes,
Bactrian legend right: OηþO, tamgha at left
Göbl 62
The legend on this coin reads "Oesho," which suggests the Iranian wind god Wesho,while the image seems to be that of Shiva with his various familiar attributes: trident, deerskin, damaru or drum (also seen as a thunderbolt) and water pot. It is possible that this image demonstrates that the two deities, Wesho and Shiva, were in the process of being merged at this time and place.
Two clearly identified hypertexts are: Goat or antelope and overflowing pot shown on obverse of the coin.
<lo-> `to be left over' (B) {V} ``(pot, etc.) to ^overflow''. See `to be left over'. @B24310. #20851.(B) {V} ``to be ^left over, to be ^saved''. Caus. . @B24300. #20861. Rebus: loa 'iron' (Mu.)Re(B),,(B) {N} ``^iron''. Pl. <-le> PLUS
காண்டம்² kāṇṭam, n. < kāṇḍa. 1. Water; sacred water; நீர். துருத்திவா யதுக்கிய குங்குமக் காண்டமும் (கல்லா. 49, 16). Rebus: khāṇḍā ‘metal tools, pots and pans’ (Marathi).
Thus, the overflowing pot is a hypertext to signify metal tools, pots and pans of copper. The combined expression is: lokhaṇḍa 'metal tools, pots and pans, metalware'.
Goat hieroglyph:melh,mr̤eka'goat or antelope' rebus: milakkhu 'copper' mleccha 'copper'
Antelope hieroglyph: ranku 'antelope' rebus: ranku 'tin'.
Thus,the hypertexts on the Kanishka Gold dinar signify work in a mint producing copper-tin metalware.