bga_249700 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux animaux affrontés
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 240.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 240.00 €
Type : Bronze aux animaux affrontés
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,15 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et légèrement scyphate, avec les types complets, mais aux reliefs un peu émoussés. Belle patine verte
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection G.G. de Arras
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sanglier surmonté d'un cheval à droite, la tête tournée à gauche ; derrière, un bucrane et un rinceau.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite surmonté d'un petit sanglier; entre les pattes, trois annelets centrés.
Commentary
Dans cette série 52 du Delestrée/Tache, “type aux animaux adossés ou alternés”, ce bronze occupe la classe 2.
In this series 52 of Delestrée/Tache, “type with leaning or alternating animals”, this bronze occupies class 2
In this series 52 of Delestrée/Tache, “type with leaning or alternating animals”, this bronze occupies class 2
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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