Punic
There are 305 items in Punic:
Carthaginian mask, smiling |
Carthago Nova (Cartagena)
Carthago Nova (Phoenician Kart hadašt, "new city"): Carthaginian capital in Iberia, Roman city, modern Cartagena. Iberia in the third century BCE It is hard to…Carthago, Musée national de Carthage
Museum with the finds of Punic and Roman Carthage. There are 7 items in Carthago, Musée national de Carthage: …Clupea
Aspis (Greek Ἀσπίς) or Clupea: fort and port on the Cape Bon peninsula. Clupea The hill on which the fort of Aspis…
Clupea, General view |
Clupea, Southern harbor |
Coin of Massinissa |
Coin of Syphax, showing an unidentified man and a horse |
Archaic Cyprus
Cyprus (Greek Κύπρος): large island in the eastern Mediterranean, colonized by Phoenicians and Greeks.Dark Age Colonization Aeolic capital from Idalion. Similar capitals have…Devotio
Devotio: the ritual dedication of an enemy, or self-dedication, to the gods of the Underworld. This Roman custom is also known from other ancient nations.Roman Ritual …Diodorus on Himera
Battle of Himera (480 BCE): decisive Syracusan victory over the Carthaginians, which secured Syracuse's hegemonial position in the fifth century. This is the translation of Diodorus, World History 11.20-23, made by C.H. Oldfather.The Carthaginians, we recall, had agreed with the Persians…Diodorus on the Fall of Motya
Motya In 398, Dionysius I, the tyrant of Syracuse, launched a campaign against the Carthaginians, who had conquered central Sicily in…