bga_115035 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Potin “à la tête diabolique”, classe 5-7
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Type : Potin “à la tête diabolique”, classe 5-7
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : potin
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Exemplaire complet, avec une patine vert sombre. Droit bien net et revers très légèrement piqué
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Ce type de tête, avec un gros crane et l'œil globulaire creux, est caractéristique des classes 5-7.
Historical background
TURONES (Area of Touraine)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The people of the Turons, settled on the Loire, left their name to Tours and Touraine. They are quoted several times in Caesar's Commentaries. They seem to have grown in importance after the disappearance of the Arverne empire in 121 BC. Like the Pictons, the Turons provided eight thousand men for the relief army which was to release Alesia. Their main oppidum seems to have been placed near the site of Amboise. Caesar (BG. II, 35; VII, 4, 75; VIII, 46).
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