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E-auction 57-25657 - bga_203159 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Bronze ARTOS

TURONES (Area of Touraine) Bronze ARTOS VF
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Estimate : 100 €
Price : 22 €
Maximum bid : 25 €
End of the sale : 19 May 2014 15:11:30
bidders : 6 bidders
Type : Bronze ARTOS
Date: c. 70-50 BC
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 3,27 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bronze avec une surface irrégulière, mais complet et bien identifiable. Patine verte et granuleuse, avec de petites zones rougeâtres
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée à droite, les cheveux longs tombant dans la nuque ; grènetis.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ARTOS.
Reverse description : Athlète nu courant à droite, tenant de la main droite une palme et de la gauche un caestus ; pentagramme à gauche.

Commentary


La représentation d’un personnage en pied est assez exceptionnelle sur des bronzes gaulois, mise à part l’abondante série au personnage courant des Bellovaques !
L'attribution aux Turons n’est peut-être pas satisfaisante, mais l’aire de répartition de ces bronzes, comme de tant d’autres attribués aux Carnutes, est localisée au sud de la Touraine....

Historical background


TURONES (Area of Touraine)

(2nd - 1st century BC)

The people of the Turons, settled on the Loire, left their name to Tours and Touraine. They are quoted several times in Caesar's Commentaries. They seem to have grown in importance after the disappearance of the Arverne empire in 121 BC. Like the Pictons, the Turons provided eight thousand men for the relief army which was to release Alesia. Their main oppidum seems to have been placed near the site of Amboise. Caesar (BG. II, 35; VII, 4, 75; VIII, 46).

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