bga_386306 - TURONES (Area of Touraine) Lot de 4 potins “à la tête diabolique”
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Type : Lot de 4 potins “à la tête diabolique”
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Metal : potin
Coments on the condition:
Potin bien identifiables, avec des patine stables et assez agréables
Predigree :
Ces exemplaires proviennent de la collection de Mme E. H. (1922-2000)
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Commentary
Ce lot est composé de quatre potins bien identifiables et assez bien venus, dont un est rogné et serait plutôt biturige.
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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