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Price : 65.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 65.00 €
Type : Bronze HIRTIVS à l'éléphant
Date: c. 45 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 2,13 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bronze usé, et/ou mal frappé, mais bien identifiable. Patine vert foncé avec quelques concrétions en surface
Catalogue references :
LT.9235 - DT.612 - ABT.390 - RIG.- - Sch/L.1060 - RPC.501 - Sch/GB.564 série 162 - DT.612 série 74 - BMCC.52
Obverse
Obverse legend : A HIRTIV.
Obverse description : Eléphant passant à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Insignes pontificaux : simpulum, aspersoir, hache à sacrifice et bonnet de flamine ; delta dans le champ à droite.
Commentary
Si le revers est assez flou, l’éléphant se devine aisément, ainsi que la légende à l’exergue A HIRTIV, qui est rétrograde sur cet exemplaire (se lit de droit e à gauche).
If the reverse is rather vague, the elephant is easily guessed, as well as the legend at the exergue A HIRTIV, which is retrograde on this example (read from right to left)
If the reverse is rather vague, the elephant is easily guessed, as well as the legend at the exergue A HIRTIV, which is retrograde on this example (read from right to left)
Historical background
TREVIRI (Area of Trier)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Treveri were a very important tribe of Belgian Gaul who controlled both banks of the Moselle. Their neighbors were the Atuatuci, the Eburones, the Remes and the Mediomatrics. Their main oppidum was in Titelberg (Luxembourg). Their capital was Trier which was refounded by Augustus as Colonia Augusta Treverorum. This tribe is often cited by Caesar. The Treveri took part in the War in particular in 54, during the revolt of Ambiorix in order to cut the lines of Caesar after having massacred the troops of Sabinus and Cotta. The Treveri do not seem to have sent relief troops in 52 BC Caesar (BG. I, 37; II, 24; III, 11; IV, 6, 10; V, 2-4, 24, 47 , 53, 55, 58; VII, 63; VIII, 25, 45, 52). Kruta: 41, 89, 277, 348.
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