Ai-Khanoum plaque

This Hellenistic city served as a military and economic center for the rulers of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom until its destruction c. 145 BC.

[2] Made of silver, the disk combines components of Greek culture, such as the chlamys all the deities wear, with Oriental design motifs such as the fixed pose of the figures and the crescent moon.

[5] It is made of silver, and engraved with gold details:[6] a figure normally identified as the Greek deity Cybele traverses a rocky landscape in a chariot pulled by lions and guided by a winged goddess of Victory; meanwhile, one priest holds a parasol over Cybele, while another burns incense upon a stepped Oriental altar towards which the chariot travels.

DAFA's lead archaeologist Paul Bernard noted that the iconographic elements—the representations of Victory and Helios, and the robes of the goddesses—were predominantly Greek in origin.

Claude Rapin believed that the disk in fact showed the Egyptian goddess Isis, not a Victory, while Henri-Paul Francfort theorised that the disk displayed an actual religious event in the city.