A Roman Sceptre-Head from Eastbury, Berks
A Roman Sceptre-Head from Eastbury, Berks
复制标题
来自伯克斯伊斯特伯里的罗马权杖头
作者：
Lori Foley
背面是一匹程式化的马，肩上有三个弹丸，还有一个简单的线性头部(PI。XXIIB)。字母SIA可以在马的下面辨认出来，可能是更长的铭文的一部分。事实上，在马的上方和左侧似乎存在着进一步字母的痕迹。马本身，虽然不完全相同的其他马描绘在伊塞尼亚硬币，肯定是相似的类型学。据我所知，马肩上的三个弹丸不是英国凯尔特硬币上使用的装置，除了某些Icenian硬币（即Anted， Ecen和Ed）。约翰·肯特博士指出，如果正面的传说是AEDIC，它不可能与任何记录的凯尔特人名有关，但类似于一个公认的广泛分布的凯尔特地名，例如Ethica insula（苏格兰的Tiree）和Aeticeuse Coenobium（现在的Monthier-en-Bresse， saonne -et- loire）。他认为，这个传说可能因此保留了一个以前不为人知的铁器时代中心或造币厂的名字，而相反的传说“SIA”可能是统治者名字的一部分。我们已经知道这枚硬币可能是伊塞尼亚人的。然而，如果它是，它并不构成其他爱森尼亚银币的主要序列的一部分，它适合三种类型之一：脸或头马；Pattern-Horse;和Boar-Horse;但“普拉苏塔格斯”银币也不会这样。在没有考古背景的情况下确定一枚硬币的年代显然是有问题的，但在比较的基础上，它可能可以追溯到公元一世纪上半叶。到目前为止，这种独特的硬币类型的进一步标本可能会为它的起源、分布和日期提供更多的线索。”
The reverse shows a stylized horse with three pellets on its shoulder, and with a simple linear head (PI., XXIIB). The letters ]SIA[ can be made out under the horse, and may be part of a longer inscription. Indeed traces of further letters appear to exist above and to the left of the horse. The horse itself, although not identical with other horses depicted on Icenian coins, is certainly similar typologically. So far as I am aware, the three pellets on the shoulder of a horse are not a device which is used on British Celtic coins, other than certain Icenian coins (i.e. Anted, Ecen and Ed). Dr John Kent has indicated that if the obverse legend is AEDIC, it cannot be related to any recorded Celtic personal name, but resembles a well-established and widely distributed Celtic place name, for example the Ethica insula (Tiree, Scotland) and also Aeticeuse Coenobium (now Monthier-en-Bresse, Saone-et-Loire). He has suggested that the legend may therefore preserve the name of a previously unknown Iron Age centre or mint, whereas the reverse legend ]SIA[ may be part of the name of a ruler. We have seen that the coin may be Icenian. However, if it is, it does not form part of the main sequence of other Icenian silver coins, which fit into one of three broad types: Face or Head-Horse; Pattern-Horse; and Boar-Horse; but the silver 'Prasutagus' coins do not do so either. Dating a single coin with no archaeological context is obviously problematic, but on comparative grounds it may date to the first half of the first century AD., perhaps 10-40 AD Further specimens of this so far unique coin type may shed more light on its origin, distribution and date."