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E-auction 407-319295 - bga_637010 - GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges) Potin au taureau chargeant

GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges) Potin au taureau chargeant VF
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Estimate : 50 €
Price : 16 €
Maximum bid : 22 €
End of the sale : 01 February 2021 14:02:00
bidders : 5 bidders
Type : Potin au taureau chargeant
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 3,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Potin bien identifiable mais présentant une usure importante. Patine sombre
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la calotte crânienne très développée et le cou bifide et l'œil marqué devant le front par un globule.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Taureau chargeant à droite, sur une ligne d‘exergue.

Commentary


Ce potin est entre le DT. 3209 attribué aux Eduens et le DT. 3503 attribué aux Bituriges.
L'appellation d'H. Patat pour ce potin est Potin au taureau chargeant "Loire moyenne" 1. Si l'attribution est plutôt biturige, il semblerait qu'ils circulèrent jusqu'au sud de la Touraine. Cet exemplaire est très particulier, avec l'œil fortement marqué par un globule devant le front. Il se rapproche du potin n° 672 du musée de Lyon (qui est dans un piteux état).
L'exemplaire 3209 du Nouvel Atlas classé aux Eduens (?) pourrait être le prototype de notre potin, largement plus stylisé. En ce qui concerne les potins proches de celui proposé ici, les provenances militeraient plutôt pour une attribution aux Bituriges.

Historical background


GALLIA - BITURIGES CUBI (Area of Bourges)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The Bituriges Cubes were one of the most powerful peoples of the Celtic. Their territory extended over part of Bourbonnais, Touraine and Berry, the current departments of Cher, Indre and part of Allier. Their capital was the oppidum of Avaricum (Bourges). The Loire separated them from the Aedui and the Carnutes. They also had for neighbors the Pictons, the Lémovices and the Arvernes. According to the account of Livy, the king of Bituriges, Ambigat would have reigned over the whole of unified Gaul in the 6th century BC.. -VS. and would have sent his two nephews, Bellovèse and Sigovèse, one to Italy, the other to the East, to found the Gallic Empire which, a century later, extended over Great Britain, central Europe (except Switzerland), northern Italy and most of the Danube. Before the Gallic Wars, the Bituriges would have been the clients of the Aedui and a contingent of Boii would have been installed on their territory.. Their main wealth came from animal husbandry and iron mining which had brought them wealth and prosperity.. In 52 BC. -VS. , they supported Vercingetorix. They were defeated at Genabum (Orleans) by Caesar. Vercingetorix encouraged them to practice the scorched earth technique. They thus destroyed more than twenty oppida, but refused the same fate to their capital, Avaricum (Bourges). Caesar came to besiege the oppidum, defended by thirty thousand Bituriges and ten thousand allies. The city was taken and burned, only eight hundred soldiers were able to escape, while the garrison and the population were massacred.. Caesar found there abundant reserves which enabled him to spend the winter and prepare the campaign for the following spring.. Nevertheless, the Bituriges would still have provided a contingent of twelve thousand men to the relief army of the Gallic coalition, during the siege of Alésia. At the beginning of 51 BC. -VS. , Caesar led a new campaign among the Bituriges who submitted very quickly. A few weeks later, they intervened with Caesar to fight against the Carnutes. Caesar (BG. I, 18; VII, 5, 8, 9, 11-13, 15, 21, 29, 75, 90, VIII, 2, 3, 4, 11). Strabo (G. IV, 2). Livy (HR. V, 34, 35). Pliny (HN. , IV. 109). Ptolemy (G. II, 7). Kruta: 68-70, 145, 186-187, 212-213, 240, 334, 344, 360.

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