Zoilus II Soter (Ancient Greek: Ζωΐλος Σωτήρ, romanized: Zōïlos Sōtēr; epithet means "the Saviour") was an Indo-Greek king who ruled in eastern Punjab.
Zoilus seems to have been one of the rulers who succeeded the last important Indo-Greek king Apollodotus II in the eastern parts of his former kingdom.
Hinc ope barbarica variisque Antonius armis, victor ab Aurorae populis et litore rubro, Aegyptum viresque Orientis et ultima secum Bactra vehit.
Antony, with barbarous wealth and strange weapons, conqueror of eastern peoples and the Indian shores, bringing Egypt, and the might of the Orient, with him, and furthest Bactria.
The Kharoshthi monograms are the letters for: sti, ji, ra, ga, gri, ha, stri, ri, bu, a, di, stra, and śi.
Coin of Zoilus II, as a balding man.
Obv:
Bust of Zoilus with Greek legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΖΩΙΛΟΥ "Of King Zoilos the Saviour".
Rev:
Athena
advancing left, with thunderbolt and shield covered with
aegis
(type of
Menander I
).
Kharosthi
legend: MAHARAJASA TRATARASA JHOILASA "King Zoilus the Saviour".
Coin of Zoilus II, with Apollo and small elephant behind him. Tripod on the reverse.
Elephant and tripod.
Coin of full-haired Zoilus with later "boxy" mint-mark, hypothesized to be Zoilus III.
Obv:
Bust of king with Greek legend ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΖΩΙΛΟΥ "Of King Zoilos the Saviour".
Rev:
Athena
advancing left, with thunderbolt and shield covered with
aegis
(type of
Menander I
).
Kharosthi
legend: MAHARAJASA TRATARASA JHOILASA "King Zoilus the Saviour".
Zoilus II Indian-standard coin with "boxy" mint-mark, possibly characteristic of Zoilus III.
Obv
Standing god Apollo, holding an arrow and a bow.
Rev
Tripod.
Monolingual coin of Zoilus II Soter with "boxy" mint-mark.
Obv
Standing
Apollo
with
bead and reel
border.
Rev
Diadem with Kharoshthi legend "Maharajasa tratarasa Jhahilasa" (Saviour King Zoilus).
Coin of Zoilus II/III, younger portrait.
Coins of Zoilus II were found under a peripheral stupa in the
Dharmarajika
Buddhist monastery.