bga_532718 - SENONES (Area of Sens) Potin à la tête casquée et à la rosace
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Price : 170.00 €
Type : Potin à la tête casquée et à la rosace
Date: c. avant 52 AC.
Metal : potin
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et très bel exemplaire pour le type ! Joli droit inhabituel. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection C.N., acquis en 1999
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée stylisée à gauche entre deux globules.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval ou bouquetin à queue bifide passant à gauche, la crinière formée de quatre globules ; entre les pattes, un fleuron formé de cinq globules.
Commentary
Exemplaire d’un style extraordinaire avec l’oeil en forme d’annelet bouleté en son centre.
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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