E-auction 173-107475 - bga_264254 - GALLIA BELGICA - ATREBATES (Area of Arras) Bronze CAITIO/AMANDI
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| Estimate : | 120 € |
| Price : | 52 € |
| Maximum bid : | 77 € |
| End of the sale : | 08 August 2016 14:06:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Bronze CAITIO/AMANDI
Date: c. 50-40 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 2,56 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze identifiable, sur un flan un peu court avec une frappe relativement centrée au droit mais décentrée au revers. Les reliefs sont comme noyés sous une épaisse patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [CAI-TIO ].
Obverse description : Tête janiforme barbue celtisée avec torque à la base du cou.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [AM-ANDI].
Reverse description : Lion passant à droite avec une ligne de terre ; au-dessus, deux branches croisées.
Commentary
Le droit est peut-être copié sur le denier de C. Fonteius, frappé en 114-113 AC. (RRC. 290/1 = RCV. 167) ou sur les bronzes à la tête janiforme dont les derniers exemplaires sont frappés par Sextus Pompée (RCV. 1394). Le revers est d’inspiration massaliote et copié sur les drachmes de Marseille.
Historical background
GALLIA BELGICA - ATREBATES (Area of Arras)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Atrébates were an important people of Belgian Gaul, occupying the territory of medieval Artois, in the current departments of Somme and Pas-de-Calais. They had for neighbors the Ambiens, the Ménapiens and the Morins. Their main oppidum was Nemetocenne (Arras). Part of the continental Atrebates had settled in the 2nd century in the island of Brittany. They thus carried out important commercial and political exchanges from each side of the Channel.. Commios, imposed as king of the Atrebates by Caesar, was of considerable help to him during the two successive campaigns in Britain in 55 and 54 BC.. -VS. In particular, he negotiated peace with Cassivellaunos. The following year, he was put in charge of supervising the Ménapiens. Nevertheless, Commios betrayed the trust of the Romans and provided a contingent of four thousand men for the relief army destined for Alesia in 52 BC.. -VS. The following year in 51 BC. -VS. , with Corréos, he took the head of the coalition of the Belgian peoples, directed against the Romans and was defeated. He first found refuge in Germany then he would have ended up submitting to Marc Antoine. Finally, he retired to Brittany where he became king among the Atrebates.. Caesar (BG. II, 4, 16, 23; IV, 21, 27, 35; V, 22, 46; VI, 6; VII, 75, 76, 79; VIII, 6, 7, 10, 21, 23, 47, 48). Strabo (G. IV, 3). Ptolemy (G. II, 9). Kruta: 68, 376, 381.
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