v15_1232 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au sanglier et au cavalier
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 130.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 130.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze au sanglier et au cavalier
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,18 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan un peu court. Joli revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sanglier enseigne à droite ; sous la tête, une volute ; dans le champ; des annelets.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier passant à gauche, tenant un torque ; dans le champ, annelets et globules ; à l'exergue, une ligne brisée.
Commentary
Les classes 4 et 5 se ressemblent beaucoup. Néanmoins, notre exemplaire appartient bien à la classe 5a. La volute semble sortir du groin du sanglier et rejoint sa patte. L'animal est déjà stylisé sur cet exemplaire et semble une dégénérescence du prototype de base.
Classes 4 and 5 are very similar. However, our specimen clearly belongs to class 5a. The volute seems to come out of the boar's snout and join its leg. The animal is already stylized on this specimen and seems to be a degeneration of the basic prototype.
Classes 4 and 5 are very similar. However, our specimen clearly belongs to class 5a. The volute seems to come out of the boar's snout and join its leg. The animal is already stylized on this specimen and seems to be a degeneration of the basic prototype.
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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