v34_1155 - GALLIA - NEDENES (oppidum of Montlaures) Obole à la tête de cheval
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
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Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Obole à la tête de cheval
Date: 90-40 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 10 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 0,40 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie de qualité hors du commun, pour ce type rare et souvent fruste. Le droit et le revers sont centrés et complets, bien que sur un flan plutôt irrégulier. Légère patine grise
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête féminine à gauche ; la chevelure bouclée.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Encolure de cheval, très stylisée, l'œil et le museau marqués par deux points reliés entre eux, la crinière perlée.
Commentary
Sur cette obole, la crinière est bouletée alors qu'elle est lisse sur d'autres exemplaires, comme celui illustrant l'ouvrage de L. Villaronga. Au droit, la base du cou est ornée d'un collier de perles.
On this obol, the mane is balled while it is smooth on other examples, such as the one illustrating the work of L. Villaronga. On the obverse, the base of the neck is decorated with a pearl necklace
On this obol, the mane is balled while it is smooth on other examples, such as the one illustrating the work of L. Villaronga. On the obverse, the base of the neck is decorated with a pearl necklace
Historical background
GALLIA - NEDENES (oppidum of Montlaures)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
This small people is neither cited by Ptolemy nor by Strabo any more than by Caesar. He must have belonged to the more general group of Longostaletes, in the region between Narbonne and Béziers. It is the recent excavations, carried out over the past thirty years, which have made it possible to restore to the oppida of Montlaurès and Ensérune the importance they had acquired between the creation of the province of Narbonnaise, in 118 BC. C., and the end of the Gallic Wars.
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