bga_473824 - GALLIA BELGICA - SUESSIONES (Area of Soissons) Bronze DEIVICIAC, classe I
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Price : 140.00 €
Type : Bronze DEIVICIAC, classe I
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,39 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze sur un flan large mais irrégulier et épais. Beaux reliefs et agréable patine sombre
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection régionale D. B.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à gauche, la chevelure figurée par de grosses mèches enroulées. Deux gros annelets centrés alternant avec deux globules devant le visage.
Reverse
Reverse legend : AEOYIKIIAKOC.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite ; petit sanglier tourné à droite entre les pattes. Un globule centré devant le sanglier. Légende du devant du cheval jusqu’au-dessous du sanglier.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire appartient à la classe I (de la série DEIVICIAC) qui n’a pas de légende au droit. Cette classe est assez lourde (le poids moyen des exemplaires de la BN est de 4,78 grammes). Au-dessus du cheval, la “ligne courbe” n’est pas sans rappeler l’aurige dégénéré visible sur les statères MONNAIES XV, n° 1102 à 1106.
Les bronzes de ce type étant souvent frustes, cet exemplaire est dans un bel état pour cette cette classe.
This example belongs to class I (from the DEIVICIAC series) which has no legend on the right. This class is quite heavy (the average weight of BN examples is 4.78 grams). Above the horse, the “curved line” is reminiscent of the degenerate charioteer visible on the MONNAIES for this this class
Les bronzes de ce type étant souvent frustes, cet exemplaire est dans un bel état pour cette cette classe.
This example belongs to class I (from the DEIVICIAC series) which has no legend on the right. This class is quite heavy (the average weight of BN examples is 4.78 grams). Above the horse, the “curved line” is reminiscent of the degenerate charioteer visible on the MONNAIES for this this class
Historical background
GALLIA BELGICA - SUESSIONES (Area of Soissons)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Suessions were an important people of the Belgians, confined on the Aisne in the territory of the province of Soissonnais. They had for neighbor the Remi, the Lingones, the Senones, the Parisii, the Bellovaci and the Ambiens.. According to Caesar, the two peoples Remes and Suessions, before the Gallic Wars, had the same laws and the same leaders. They had for customers the Meldes, the Silvanectes and the Viromanduens. Diviciacos, one of their kings, would have reigned as far as Brittany. Galba, his successor, commanded the coalition of rebel Belgians in 57 BC. -VS. with a contingent of fifty thousand men. The Suessions and their Bellovaci allies were defeated. Galba had to deliver his two sons as hostages to the Romans. They provided a contingent of five thousand men for the relief army in 52 BC. -VS. They were placed under the authority of the Remes after this date. In 51 BC. -VS. , the members of the Belgian coalition were to first attack the Suessions. Ruled by Corréos and Commios, the Belgic peoples were finally crushed by the Romans. Their main oppidum was Noviodunum (Soissons). Caesar (BG. II, 3, 4, 12, 13; VI, 35; VII, 75; VIII, 6). Kruta: 69.
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