bga_241423 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux sangliers affrontés
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Type : Bronze aux sangliers affrontés
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,43 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Flan fragmentaire, mais avec des types parfaitement identifiables. Épaisse patine verte et granuleuse
Predigree :
Ce bronze provient de la collection P. Gendre et est indiqué provenir de Digeon (80)
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Deux sangliers affrontés dos à dos, de part det d’autre d’un axe vertical.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite, la crinière bouletée ; des annelets pointés dans le champ.
Commentary
Ce type de bronze, avec deux sangliers au droit, s’insère dans la série 49 type aux “deux sangliers / cheval”, mais ne correspond exactement à aucun des trois exemplaires DT. 463-465.
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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