v31_0817 - SENONES (Area of Sens) Bronze YLLYCCI à l’oiseau, classe Vc
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 220.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 220.00 €
Starting price : 220.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 220.00 €
Type : Bronze YLLYCCI à l’oiseau, classe Vc
Date: c. avant 52 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,9 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,44 g.
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire, homogène, avec le droit et le revers très bien frappés avec une magnifique patine noire et brillante
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux divisés en grosses boucles stylisées, tirées en arrière ; devant la bouche, un annelet pointé entouré d’un annelet perlé.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [YL]LYCCI.
Reverse description : Oiseau à gauche ; derrière, un pentagramme et un Y ; derrière, deux annelets centrés ; sous la queue de l’oiseau, une croisette aux extrémités bouletées.
Commentary
Les principales variantes sont au droit, entre l’esse et l’annelet perlé. Sur ce bronze de la classe Vc, l’annelet pointé et perlé est complet. Au revers, on distingue un globule sous le bec de l’oiseau. .
The main variations are on the obverse, between the esse and the pearled ringlet. On this bronze of class Vc, the pointed and pearled ringlet is complete. On the reverse, we can see a globule under the bird's beak.
The main variations are on the obverse, between the esse and the pearled ringlet. On this bronze of class Vc, the pointed and pearled ringlet is complete. On the reverse, we can see a globule under the bird's beak.
Historical background
SENONES (Area of Sens)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Sénons, whose name means the sages or the elders, controlled a vast territory which extended between the south of Champagne and the north of Burgundy. Their main oppidum was Agedincum (Sens) which still retains the name of the ancient civitas today. They had several other oppida like Auxerre, Tonnerre or Avallon. Divona seems to have been the principal sanctuary of the Senones. Caesar had wintered six of his legions in 53 BC at Agedincum. Labienus, Caesar's lieutenant and legate, came to settle in the region of Sens between Gergovie and Alesia in order to control the roads and protect Caesar's armies from an attack from the Belgians or the Germans. Caesar (BG. II, 2; V, 54, 56; VI, 2, 3, 44; VII, 4, 10, 11, 34, 56-59, 62, 75). Ptolemy (G. II, 8, 9).
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