bga_515152 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au sanglier et au cavalier
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Type : Bronze au sanglier et au cavalier
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,26 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire présentant un joli revers et une belle patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sanglier enseigne à droite ; sous la tête, un bucrane ; dans le champ; des annelets.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier passant à gauche, tenant un torque ; dans le champ, annelets et globules.
Commentary
La variété 2 du Nouvel Atlas a la particularité d’avoir ce bucrane mais aussi la lettre A sous la jambe avant du cheval, au revers ; cette lettre est particulièrement visible.
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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