06-13-2007, 01:01 AM
As I mentioned above I was studying the images on Carthaginian coins to get a feel for the sorts of images Carthaginians might have painted on their shields.
The horse and tree motif was apparently the most popular and the horse could be in just about any pose imaginable. They also liked pairing the horse image with an image of what seems to be there battle standard - the crescent and disk combination. A star symbol or a sun symbol were other options. Sometimes they just protrayed the head of a horse - sometimes with the palm tree or the standard or the star symbol, etc.
Aside from the Horse and Tree, other options seem to be: the palm tree alone, a pegasus, a crab, dolphins, a lion, a bull, or an elephant.
I've put together an assortment of these images (the images in the first row are the ones with the crescent and moon standard):
![[Image: Carthagecoins.jpg]](http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l126/cnaeusvalerius/Carthagecoins.jpg)
The horse and tree motif was apparently the most popular and the horse could be in just about any pose imaginable. They also liked pairing the horse image with an image of what seems to be there battle standard - the crescent and disk combination. A star symbol or a sun symbol were other options. Sometimes they just protrayed the head of a horse - sometimes with the palm tree or the standard or the star symbol, etc.
Aside from the Horse and Tree, other options seem to be: the palm tree alone, a pegasus, a crab, dolphins, a lion, a bull, or an elephant.
I've put together an assortment of these images (the images in the first row are the ones with the crescent and moon standard):
Dan Zeidler
Legio XX
Legio XX
