bga_885545 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux animaux affrontés
90.00 €(Approx. 95.40$ | 74.70£)
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Type : Bronze aux animaux affrontés
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 2,02 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze agréable sur un flan centré. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sanglier surmonté d'un cheval à droite, la tête tournée à gauche ; derrière, un bucrane et un rinceau.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite surmonté d'un petit sanglier ; entre les pattes, trois annelets centrés.
Commentary
Dans cette série 52 du Delestrée/Tache, “type aux animaux adossés ou alternés”, ce bronze occupe la classe 2.
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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