v09_0776 - GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos) Drachme Setubo
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 579.31 €
Estimate : 838.47 €
Realised price : 625.04 €
Starting price : 579.31 €
Estimate : 838.47 €
Realised price : 625.04 €
Type : Drachme Setubo
Date: c. 121-52 AC.
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,99 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan quadrangulaire découpé au burin. Droit très stylisé / Légèrement décentré au revers, mais de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Restes de tête stylisées dont il ne subsiste que des traits de la chevelure.
Reverse
Reverse legend : SE[TVBO].
Reverse description : Croix formée de quatre cantons : olivette aux 1er, 2e et 4e cantons ; hache évidée bouletée au 2e canton, accostée de trois globules posés en triangle.
Historical background
GALLIA - SOUTH WESTERN GAUL - SOTIATES (Area of Sos)
(1st century BC)
The Sotiates or Sontiates inhabited the southwest of the current department of Lot-et-Garonne, as well as part of the Gers and the Landes, and were placed between the Elusates and the Nitiobroges. Their oppidum was Sos. If the people of the Sotiates is not itself mentioned in the Commentaries, Adietuanus, their leader, is (BG. III, 22). The latter was submitted by Publius Licinius Crassus, lieutenant of Caesar, the son of Crassus who was to die in 53 BC at the battle of Carrhae, moreover with his son. Adietanus would have surrendered to Caesar's lieutenant only after the capitulation of Sos, the capital of his people. Rallying to the Romans, the sotiate chief received the title of "Rex". Sources: Caesar (BG. III, 20, 21 and 22).
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