v15_0667 - SENONES (Area of Sens) Potin à la tête “d’indien”
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 105.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 120.00 €
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 105.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 120.00 €
Type : Potin à la tête “d’indien”
Date: c. avant 52 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 5,78 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de haut relief sur un flan épais et lourd, pratiquement complet des deux côtés avec une patine vert noir
Catalogue references :
LT.7417 - BN.7422, 7425-7432 - ABT.319 - Sch/L.748 - Sch/SM.381 - Sch/D.192 - PK.92 - BMCC.389-397, S400-S409 - Z.699
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES II, 21 juin 1997, n° 277
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête “d’indien” fortement stylisée à droite, six mèches courtes de cheveux tiréés en arrière, bouletées aux extrémités ; l’œil est globulé ; trace de l’oreille.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval stylisé au pas à gauche, accosté de trois globules ; la queue du cheval est globulée, à son extrémité.
Commentary
Poids lourd. Sous le cou, on semble apercevoir la ligne discontinue d’un torque. Les deux globules accostant le cheval sont gros, celui surmontant l’échine du cheval est pratiquement inexistant.
Heavyweight. Under the neck, one seems to see the broken line of a torque. The two globules surrounding the horse are large, the one surmounting the horse's spine is practically nonexistent.
Heavyweight. Under the neck, one seems to see the broken line of a torque. The two globules surrounding the horse are large, the one surmounting the horse's spine is practically nonexistent.
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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