bga_853175 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze “aux abeilles”
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Bronze “aux abeilles”
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 2,65 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze frappé sur un flan large et régulier, avec des types complet et bien centrés. Patine brune et brillante, un peu plus sombre dans les creux
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche avec un collier ; devant la face, deux cercles centrés avec queue ondulée.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à gauche surmonté d'un aurige tenant les rênes ; un annelet pointé entre les jambes du cheval.
Commentary
L’appellation imagée de bronze “aux abeilles” vient des deux cercles centrés avec queue triple, placés devant le visage qui faisaient parfois penser à ces insectes.
Cet exemplaire présente un revers intéressant, avec seulement un petit annelet sous le cheval.
The pictorial name of bronze “with bees” comes from the two centered circles with triple tails, placed in front of the face which sometimes made us think of these insects. This example has an interesting reverse, with only a small ring under the horse
Cet exemplaire présente un revers intéressant, avec seulement un petit annelet sous le cheval.
The pictorial name of bronze “with bees” comes from the two centered circles with triple tails, placed in front of the face which sometimes made us think of these insects. This example has an interesting reverse, with only a small ring under the horse
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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