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bga_515132 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux boeufs adossés, BN 8524

AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux boeufs adossés, BN 8524 AU
500.00 €(Approx. 540.00$ | 430.00£)
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Type : Bronze aux boeufs adossés, BN 8524
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,91 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan excessivement large et magnifique patine vert olive. Jolie représentation
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Deux bœufs adossés avec des croissants dans le champ.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Deux oiseaux (?) affrontés, face à face, avec des volutes envahissant les espaces vides.

Commentary


L’exemplaire repris pour illustrer le Nouvel Atlas est celui de la BN, recolorisé à partir du moulage de Simone Scheers.

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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