bga_517392 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et à la tête de face
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Price : 380.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 380.00 €
Type : Bronze au cheval et à la tête de face
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,31 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Remarquable exemplaire avec un très beau revers et un droit de haut relief. Patine vert foncé
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection du docteur C.M
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à gauche, la chevelure en arrière ; des annelets devant le visage.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite ; une tête coupée de face au-dessus de la croupe.
Commentary
Au revers, le cheval est volontairement étiré, au niveau de l'encolure, pour encadrer la tête coupée.
On the reverse, the horse is deliberately stretched, at the level of the neck, to frame the severed head
On the reverse, the horse is deliberately stretched, at the level of the neck, to frame the severed 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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