Live auction - bga_520467 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze à la tête humaine et au cheval
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| Estimate : | 800 € |
| Price : | 469 € |
| Maximum bid : | 658 € |
| End of the sale : | 29 January 2019 15:37:31 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Bronze à la tête humaine et au cheval
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,40 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie de toute beauté frappée sur un flan large. Droit fantastique, sans usure et de style fin. Magnifique revers avec un soleil bien venu. Jolie patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à gauche, la chevelure disposée en deux rangées de mèches.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre passant à droite ; au-dessus, un triskèle ou une swastika ; derrière, un fleuron évidé et un globule ; entre les jambes du cheval, un soleil évidé aux rayons bouletés.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire permet de compléter la lecture de ce type qui n’était pas complet jusque là (seul le bronze BN 8441 avait été retenu pour illustrer le Traité de S. Scheers). Ce bronze n’a pas été repris dans la typologie “du fonds commun” des Ambiani, pour la série 46 alors qu’il aurait mérité d’être individualisé.
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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