These two would be a well-to-do couple from the civilization of ancient Carthage, a empire based in North Africa which dominated much of the western Mediterranean basin between the ninth and second centuries BC. The man hails from areas under Carthaginian influence in the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal) whereas the woman is of native North African descent. With this picture, I wanted to illustrate the probable diversity of the Carthaginian population in keeping with its transcontinental nature.