#aph--carthage

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ROME GOT NO BUSINESS LOOKIN LIKE A SNACC

drink milk kids n grow up big n stronk like roma

this scene in: It’s always sunny in philadelphia italia™

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Anonymous asked: How did it feel loosing all your ships Carthage?

"Totally not complete agony."

-Ṣap̄anbaʿal

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By Baʿal, is that a chibi hannibal?

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Why does carthage cross her arms so much?

//hi, mun here! I tend to draw small niches in Carthage following little tid-bits that historians wrote on the Puncis. Like hiding her hands! Though, most of the time, I try not to let her fall into the cliche of “Fides Punica” perpetuated onto Carthaginians by Greek and Roman historians. But, damn it's fun to poke a stick at. 

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I still do not understand if Carthage was a Vandal Kingdom and Byzantine Africa. On the one hand, it would be logical, because the cultural continuity was not interrupted even after the brutal Roman conquest, on the other, I was so used to the idea that Rome killed Carthage and, perhaps, the subsequent states belong to Tunisia (daughter of Carthage). It's Complicated.

In antiquity the region once under Berber claim became Carthage through conquest and as they syncretised through trade and politics the greater region was integrated. After her loss of city, acculturation with Rome (both historically and structurally) ensured that as a people her kind would have not died out; even going as far to say she would’ve enjoyed great prosperity even with the slight change of name to Carthago.

As one site phrases it: “There were, however, other Punic cities in Northwest Africa, and Carthage itself was rebuilt and regained some importance, if a shadow of its ancient influence. Although the area was partially romanized and some of the population adopted the Roman religion (while fusing it with aspects of their beliefs and customs), the language and the ethnicity persisted for some time. People of Punic origin prospered again as traders, merchants and even politicians of the Roman Empire.”

Her language endured as Neo-Punic or even a kind of Latino-Libyco-Berber-Punic hybrid. 

(Try saying that ten times fast) 

The difference was due to the dialectal changes that Punic underwent as it spread among the North-African peoples. Even still, it would be a very mild assumption to say that given the multifaceted nature of the native peoples of the Maghreb with a clear link to punic historically; and the very dialect itself for eg. Tamazigh. The striking similarity with Punic given it’s phonetic symbols in the various North African alphabets is that the survival/existance of the very merchant herself would likely be routed more in her language and history and trade as a thalassocracy unlike a traditional democratic/monarchical/etc… nation.

Still, it’s hard to place her in a box of title, since not only has a similar Phoenician identity been rekindled in Lebanon but so too has one with some Amazigh/berber people in the greater area of North African actually identifying with Carthaginians.

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🇱🇻 (Also i love your art!!!)

latvia 🇱🇻 : do you have any scars with an interesting or grisly story?

“I will tell you of three of them.

Two sizeable slashes of discolouration cut from the apex of my hip to my belt line, then one perpendicularly. They seem like they were intended to cripple my ability to walk, moreover destroy my freedom, my home… and so they ultimately did.”

At least the final cut did.“

-Ṣap̄anbaʿal