Punic, Sicily - Carthage AE15 400-300 BCE 

• -350 
• Carthage 
• AE 15 
• Ancient Greece - Classical Period (480–323 B.C.) 

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Punic, Sicily - Carthage AE15 400-300 BCE

-350

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SNG Cop. 1021v

Obv; prancing horse, right Rev; City goddess, head of Persephone-Tanit Carthage was founded in about 830 BCE on the coast of North Africa, in what is now Tunisia. It developed into a significant trading empire throughout the Mediterranean, and was home to a wealthy and brilliant civilization. After a long conflict with the emerging civilization of Ancient Rome, known as the Punic Wars, during which Hannibal conducted his famous campaign in Italy after first crossing from Iberia over the Pyrenees and the Alps, with war elephants. Rome finally destroyed Carthage in 146 B.C. Later Roman Carthage was destroyed following the Muslim invasion of 698, and it remained undeveloped for more than a 1,000 years, until Ottoman rule, and subsequent establishment of the French protectorate of Tunisia in 1881. Tanit was a Punic and Phoenician goddess, and the chief deity of Carthage alongside her consort Ba`al Hammon.