bga_523697 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux sangliers affrontés
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Price : 75.00 €
Type : Bronze aux sangliers affrontés
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,10 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Droit présentant une faiblesse de frappe. Joli revers. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Deux sangliers affrontés dos à dos ; au milieu, trois annelets ; à droite un bucrane et à gauche une esse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite ; entre les jambes, un bucrane ; au-dessus, un petit animal , peut-être un équidé ; devant la tête du cheval, un symbole couché en forme d’accolade.
Commentary
Ce type de bronze présente un bestiaire intéressant avec les deux sangliers affrontés au droit et le cheval avec un bucrane entre les jambes et un autre animal indéterminé au-dessus du cheval.
This type of bronze presents an interesting bestiary with the two wild boars facing each other on the right and the horse with a bucrane between the legs and another undetermined animal above the horse
This type of bronze presents an interesting bestiary with the two wild boars facing each other on the right and the horse with a bucrane between the legs and another undetermined animal above 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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