Carthage - Zeugitana (Spain) AE14 195 CE 

• 195 
• Carthage 
• AE 14 
• Roman Empire - Troas as Roman Colony in the Provence Asia (20 B.C.-284 A.D.) 

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Carthage - Zeugitana (Spain) AE14 195 CE

195

4

13 mm

( Tanit head, left )

( horse )

In 195, a Spanish revolt against Roman consolidation of the ex-Carthaginian colonies was put down by Marcus Porcius Cato ("the Censor"). He avoided one defeat by paying the Celtiberians 200 talents (around 120,000 denarii), a much-criticised tactic. On Cato's return to Rome, Aemilius Paulus succeeded him as Roman governor in Spain. 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.