bga_941101 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Bronze TVRONOS TRICCOS au bige
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Type : Bronze TVRONOS TRICCOS au bige
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 2,69 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement décentré au droit, usure fine et régulière. Une faiblesse au centre du revers. Patine sombre
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : TVRONOS.
Obverse description : Tête de Vénus, diadémée à droite, légende devant le visage ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [TRICCOS].
Reverse description : Bige lancé à droite, un guerrier debout, brandissant une lance de la main droite et tenant un bouclier de a gauche, dans le char ; un pentagramme au-dessus de la roue du char ; légende sous la ligne d’exergue.
Commentary
Ce type de bronze est rare.
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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