Lot 19-029. Hephthalites. Phromo Kesaro. 7th century A.D. AR drachm. Imitating the Sasanian type of Hormizd IV.

Hephthalites. Phromo Kesaro. 7th century A.D. AR drachm (31.6 mm, 3.36 g, 3 h). Imitating the Sasanian type of Hormizd IV. Crowned Sasanian-style bust right, wearing bull-head ornate crown; C/M: human head / Fire altar with two attendants and ribbons; C/M: ΦPOPO in Bactrian. Göbl -. VF. 

The Hephthalites, also known as White Huns, were a nomadic people who lived across northern China, Central Asia, and northern India in the fourth through sixth centuries. The term Hephthalite derives from Greek, supposedly a rendering of Hayathelite (from the term Haital = "Big/Powerful" in the dialect of Bukhara), the name used by Persian writers to refer to a 6th century empire on the northern and eastern periphery of their land. As a group they appear to be distinct from the Huns who migrated to Europe in the Fourth Century CE.

 

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