E-auction 25-7436 - bga_198598 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et au sanglier, “type des dépôts d’Amiens”
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| Estimate : | 90 € |
| Price : | 31 € |
| Maximum bid : | 38 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 October 2013 15:18:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Bronze au cheval et au sanglier, “type des dépôts d’Amiens”
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beau petit bronze, sur un flan court et épais. Droit et revers assez bien venus avec une patine sombre
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite, la queue relevée, la crinière perlée, le poitrail et la croupe ornés d’annelets pointés ; sous la tête, un annelet et entre les jambes un annelet pointé ; un cordon perlé autour du cheval.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sanglier enseigne à droite, le corps orné de deux annelets pointés ; au-dessus, une esse entre deux globules ; cercle perlé entre les pattes ; symbole de forme triangulaire sous le groin.
Commentary
Ce genre de bronze se trouve rarement en bon état et bien centré. Les patines sont souvent marron et granuleuses.
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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