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{{Infobox royalty | name =Archebius ''Dikaios Nikephoros'' ("The Just and Victorious") | succession =[[Indo-Greek]] king | image =Archebios portrait.jpg | caption =Portrait of Archebios on one of his [[tetradrachm]]s | reign =90–80 BCE | coronation = | full name = | predecessor = | successor = | spouse = | issue = | royal house = | dynasty = | father = | mother = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | date of burial = | place of burial = |religion = |}} [[File:Archebios Tetradrachm.jpg|thumb|<small>Tetradrachm of Archebios.<br>Obv: Helmetted king Archebius. Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΑΡΧΕΒΙΟΥ "Of King Archebius the Just and Victorious"<br>Rev: [[Zeus]], with [[Kharoshthi]] legend: MAHARAJASA DHRAMIKASA JAYADHARASA ARKHEBIYASA "Archebios, the victorious king of the [[Dharma]].</small>|300x300px]] [[File:Archebios bareheaded.jpg|thumb|300px|Coin of Archebius.<br>Obv: Bareheaded king Archebius. With Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΑΡΧΕΒΙΟΥ "Of King Archebius the Just and Victorious"<br>Rev: [[Zeus]], with [[Kharoshthi]] legend: MAHARAJASA DHRAMIKASA JAYADHARASA ARKHEBIYASA "Archebios, the victorious king of the [[Dharma]].]] [[File:Archebios holding spear.jpg|thumb|300px|Coin of Archebius.<br>Obv: Helmetted king Archebius holding a spear. With Greek legend: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΙΚΑΙΟΥ ΝΙΚΗΦΟΡΟΥ ΑΡΧΕΒΙΟΥ "Of King Archebius the Just and Victorious"<br>Rev: [[Zeus]], with [[Kharoshthi]] legend: MAHARAJASA DHRAMIKASA JAYADHARASA ARKHEBIYASA "Archebios, the victorious king of the [[Dharma]].]] [[File:Archebios with elephant and owl.jpg|thumb|300px|Archebios coin with elephant and owl.]] '''Archebius Dikaios Nikephoros''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: {{lang|grc|Ἀρχέβιος ὁ Δίκαιος, ὁ Νικηφόρος}}; [[epithet]]s mean respectively, "the Just", "the Victorious"; formerly read as "Archelius"<ref>"In the Masson collection of 1836 were found Archebius ( read at the time as 'Archelius')" in {{cite book |last1=Imam |first1=Abu |title=Sir Alexander Cunningham and the Beginnings of Indian Archaeology |date=1966 |publisher=Asiatic Society of Pakistan |page=134 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAUaAAAAYAAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Prinsep |first1=James |title=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal Vol V 1836 |pages=548–549 |url=https://archive.org/stream/JournalOfTheAsiaticSocietyOfBengalVolV1836/Jasb1836Full#page/n629/mode/2up |language=English}}</ref>) was an [[Indo-Greek]] king who ruled in the area of [[Taxila]]. [[Osmund Bopearachchi]] dates him to c. 90–80 BCE, and R. C. Senior to about the same period. He was probably one of the last Indo-Greek kings before the [[Saka]] king [[Maues]] conquered Taxila, and a contemporary of [[Hermaeus]] in the west. He may have been a relative of [[Heliokles II]], who used a similar reverse and also the title Dikaios.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
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