The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India by Getzel M. Cohen

Author:Getzel M. Cohen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780520273825
Publisher: University of California Press

CHARIS

Charis was one of the settlements in Parthia named for Greek and Macedonian places that Appian (Syr. 57) says were founded by Seleukos I Nikator.1 There is no other information extant about this foundation.2

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In general see Droysen, Hist. 2:751; Tomaschek, RE s.v. “Charis”; Tcherikover, HS 101; Brodersen, Komment. 159–60.

1. Tarn (GBI2 13) believed that “Charis” was actually a nickname; see further KALLIOPE in Parthia, HEKATOMPYLOS, and Appendix VIII.

2. Brodersen (Komment. 159–60) mentions three possible identifications for this settlement: (a) Karisi in Aria, (b) CHARIS in India, or (c) CHARAX in Media. The evidence Brodersen cited for Karisi in Aria is found on a coin of Eukratides. According to A. Cunningham (NC [1869] 225, no. 21; Geography 33), on the coin there is an “Arian [i.e., Aryan] legend in three lines outside, incomplete; but by collation with other specimens it appears to be Karisiye nagara devata, ‘the god of the city of Karisi,’ but the last word [i.e., “devata” (god)] is very doubtful”; see also A. von Sallet, ZfN 6 (1879) 300; id., ZfN 9 (1882) 159. In fact, the legend should be read as Kavisiye nagara devata, “the god of the city of Kapisa” ( = Bopearachchi, Monnaies gréco-bactriennes 216, nos. 121–22). Thus, the coin is an issue of Kapisa in the Parapamisadai.

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