bga_1170289 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et au sanglier
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Type : Bronze au cheval et au sanglier
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,57 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Joli bronze sur flan court et centré. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Collection Topp, Dormagen, Allemagne
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, la chevelure divisée en grosses mèches ; devant la face, annelets centrés.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite l’encolure perlée ; entre les jambes, un sanglier enseigne à droite ; derrière deux annelets pointés.
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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