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bga_559410 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux chevaux, DT. 366
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Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Bronze aux chevaux, DT. 366
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 2,81 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré. Joli revers finement détaillé. Belle patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine en forme de lune à droite, entourée de grosses esses perlées et de croissants perlés ; de petits globules centrés occupent le champ libre.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à droite, la tête vue de dessus et stylisée ; un bucrane entre les jambes et deux autres quadrupèdes, l’un à gauche et l’autre à droite, de part et d’autre du cou de l’animal principal ; de petits annelets occupent le champ libre.
Commentary
Les animaux secondaires sont décrits comme étant “mutilés”. Le revers de ce bronze illustre peut être un mythe ou un rituel celtique ?.
Secondary animals are described as “mutilated”. The reverse of this bronze perhaps illustrates a myth or a Celtic ritual?
Secondary animals are described as “mutilated”. The reverse of this bronze perhaps illustrates a myth or a Celtic ritual?
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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