bga_1002667 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze à la tête coupée de face
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Type : Bronze à la tête coupée de face
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Weight : 1,22 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré. Usure importante au droit. La tête de face est bien visible au revers. Patine verte et sable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à gauche, la chevelure disposée en deux rangées de mèches.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre passant à gauche ; au-dessus, tête coupée de face ; devant le cheval deux annelets pointés.
Commentary
Poids léger. Cette variété avec le cheval à gauche était inédite en 1977. Au revers, il semble bien s’agir d’une tête coupée alors que sur le type (DT. 391), nous avions les restes d’un buste avec un torque, placé sous la tête.
Light weight. This variety with the horse on the left was unpublished in 1977. On the reverse, it seems to be a severed head while on the type (DT. 391), we had the remains of a bust with a torque, placed under the head
Light weight. This variety with the horse on the left was unpublished in 1977. On the reverse, it seems to be a severed head while on the type (DT. 391), we had the remains of a bust with a torque, placed under the head
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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