v15_0643 - SENONES (Area of Sens) Bronze à l’oiseau et au vase, incus
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze à l’oiseau et au vase, incus
Date: c. après 45 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Weight : 3,21 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Flan taché au droit
Catalogue references :
LT.7550 var. - BN.7550-7551 var. - ABT.- - RIG.- - Sch/L.- - Sch/SM.- - Sch/D.- - Sch/GB.- - BMCC.manque
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux divisés en grosses mèches élancées, ramenées en arrière ; l’œil est bouleté ; torque bouleté sous le cou.
Reverse
Reverse description : Incus.
Commentary
Frappe incuse. Dans la collection Danicourt à Péronne, sous le numéro 191, vous avez un bronze sénon de la classe 1 (GIAMILOS). Notre exemplaire appartient bien à la classe 8.
Historical background
SENONES (Area of Sens)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Sénons, whose name means the sages or the elders, controlled a vast territory which extended between the south of Champagne and the north of Burgundy. Their main oppidum was Agedincum (Sens) which still retains the name of the ancient civitas today. They had several other oppida like Auxerre, Tonnerre or Avallon. Divona seems to have been the principal sanctuary of the Senones. Caesar had wintered six of his legions in 53 BC at Agedincum. Labienus, Caesar's lieutenant and legate, came to settle in the region of Sens between Gergovie and Alesia in order to control the roads and protect Caesar's armies from an attack from the Belgians or the Germans. Caesar (BG. II, 2; V, 54, 56; VI, 2, 3, 44; VII, 4, 10, 11, 34, 56-59, 62, 75). Ptolemy (G. II, 8, 9).
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