E-auction 241-164623 - bga_282698 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et à l’aurige, type de Chilly
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| Estimate : | 175 € |
| Price : | 41 € |
| Maximum bid : | 41 € |
| End of the sale : | 27 November 2017 14:12:30 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Bronze au cheval et à l’aurige, type de Chilly
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,88 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan un peu court mais régulier pour ce bronze avec une frappe bien centrée au droit comme au revers. Frappe molle ou coin de droit bouché, mais beau revers assez net. Patine verte et poreuse
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection J.-C. D.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, chevelure en grosses mèches ovales ; un animal devant le visage.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à droite, la longue queue à trois brins ; sur la croupe, un aurige agenouillé et entre les jambes, une sorte de sanglier.
Commentary
Ce type est mal connu est reste rare ! Le bronze DT. S366A ainsi que ceux illustrés par S. Scheers dans la Revue Archéologique de Picardie, pour le sanctuaire de Chilly, ne semblaient pas présenter de sanglier entre les jambes du cheval ! C’est pourtant clairement le cas sur notre exemplaire.
Historical background
AMBIANI (Area of Amiens)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Their name, "those who are on both sides of the river", indicates that the Ambiens, people of Belgian Gaul, occupied both banks of the Somme (Samara). Their territory corresponds to the current department of the Somme. Their neighbors were the Calètes, the Morins, the Atrébates, the Bellovaques. Their main oppidum was Samarobriva (near Amiens). They participated in the coalition of the Belgian peoples in 57 BC and provided a contingent of ten thousand men. In 52 BC, it was a contingent of five thousand men that they gave for the relief army dedicated to clearing Alesia. Caesar (BG. II, 4, 15; VII, 75; VIII, 7). Strabo (G. IV, 5). Kruta: 68, 110, 366.
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