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Antialkides or Antialcidas is a king indo-Greek, which reigned since its capital Taxila of approximately 115 with 95 av. J. - C.. Antialkides is known thanks to an inscription engraved on the Pilier of Héliodoros, set up by its ambassador at the court of the râja Bhagavata of the Shunga in Vidisha, but also by the coins which it struck. On this one, it is shown of profile naked head or carrying a surmounted round helmet of a peak or a kausia , kind of wide hat convex, national hairstyle of the Macedonian S. On one of these parts, one discovers, side crushes, Zeus is accompanied by Nike, the victory, which offers a garland to a elephant water carrying a bell around the neck. According to certain interpretations (Grousset), the elephant calf symbolizes the Bouddha Siddhartha Gautama, which took the shape of a small elephant to enter the uterus of the Râni Mâyâ, his/her mother, a scene often represented in the art gréco-Buddhist. In this case, the scene would represent the victory of Buddhism. According to other interpretations, the elephant calf would have been the symbol of the town of Taxila.
Antialkides struck some coins in the Greek style of Bactriane - with the text in Greek only - but the majority of its currencies are bilingual, in Greek and kharoshthî. Antialkides is the last king Western indo-Greek to have reigned on the whole of the sectors of the Paropamisades, the Gandhâra and Taxila. At the end of its reign, its territory was divided into three kingdoms.