bga_716931 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme trilobée, S. 368
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Price : 500.00 €
Type : Drachme trilobée, S. 368
Date: IIe siècle av. J.-C
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14 mm
Weight : 3,50 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire avec un droit absolument remarquable en qualité. Jolie patine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Fleur formée d’un globule central entouré de trois lunules, avec deux globules sous chaque lunule.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Croix bouletée au centre, formée de quatre cantons, chacun ornés d’une lunule ; une hache à gauche au 3e canton.
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos)
(1st century BC)
The Sotiates or Sontiates inhabited the southwest of the current department of Lot-et-Garonne, as well as part of the Gers and the Landes, and were placed between the Elusates and the Nitiobroges. Their oppidum was Sos. If the people of the Sotiates is not itself mentioned in the Commentaries, Adietuanus, their leader, is (BG. III, 22). The latter was submitted by Publius Licinius Crassus, lieutenant of Caesar, the son of Crassus who was to die in 53 BC at the battle of Carrhae, moreover with his son. Adietanus would have surrendered to Caesar's lieutenant only after the capitulation of Sos, the capital of his people. Rallying to the Romans, the sotiate chief received the title of "Rex". Sources: Caesar (BG. III, 20, 21 and 22).
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