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E-auction 160-97408 - bga_148371 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux animaux

AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux animaux VF/XF
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Estimate : 220 €
Price : 53 €
Maximum bid : 68 €
End of the sale : 09 May 2016 14:11:00
bidders : 10 bidders
Type : Bronze aux animaux
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14,90 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,93 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un petit flan régulier. Patine sombre, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
LT.8471  - DT.366  - Sch/GB.491

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine luniforme à droite, deux volutes devant le visage et chevelure en boucles parallèles.

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval (?) passant à droite en relevant la tête ; entre les jambes, un bucrane ; au-dessus, un petit animal indéterminé.

Commentary

Ce type de bronze, bien attribué aux Ambiens, était très rare, avec un seul exemplaire à la BN et unesecond à l’étranger.

Historical background

AMBIANI (Area of Amiens)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

Their name, "those who are on both sides of the river", indicates that the Ambiens, people of Belgian Gaul, occupied both banks of the Somme (Samara). Their territory corresponds to the current department of the Somme. Their neighbors were the Calètes, the Morins, the Atrébates, the Bellovaques. Their main oppidum was Samarobriva (near Amiens). They participated in the coalition of the Belgian peoples in 57 BC and provided a contingent of ten thousand men. In 52 BC, it was a contingent of five thousand men that they gave for the relief army dedicated to clearing Alesia. Caesar (BG. II, 4, 15; VII, 75; VIII, 7). Strabo (G. IV, 5). Kruta: 68, 110, 366.

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