E-auction 44-17764 - bga_198667 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Potin “à la tête diabolique”
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| Estimate : | 15 € |
| Price : | 6 € |
| Maximum bid : | 6 € |
| End of the sale : | 17 February 2014 15:10:00 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Potin “à la tête diabolique”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,30 g.
Coments on the condition:
Droit et revers confus, mais bien identifiables malgré une patine hétérogène
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à gauche, avec l'œil en creux, le nez pointu, lèvres représentées par deux globules.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Taureau cornupète chargeant à gauche.
Commentary
Même si les études réalisées sur les potins des Turons laissent à désirer, les auteurs du Nouvel Atlas n'ont repris que deux exemplaires ; celui de la classe I, typique avec sa petite tête chevelue et la croisette au revers, et celui de la classe II auquel tous les autres potins turons sont assimilés.
Even if the studies carried out on the gossip of the Turons leave something to be desired, the authors of the Nouvel Atlas only took two copies; that of class I, typical with its little hairy head and the cross on the reverse, and that of class II to which all the other turon gossips are assimilated
Even if the studies carried out on the gossip of the Turons leave something to be desired, the authors of the Nouvel Atlas only took two copies; that of class I, typical with its little hairy head and the cross on the reverse, and that of class II to which all the other turon gossips are assimilated
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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