bga_520373 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et à l’aurige, type de Chilly
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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 : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,65 g.
Rarity : R2
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Exemplaire intéressant avec un revers complet. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, chevelure en grosses mèches ovales.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à droite, la longue queue à trois brins ; sur la croupe, un aurige agenouillé.
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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