Carthaginian Dancer

This young dancer from ancient Carthage is beating a tambourine-like frame drum as she shakes her stuff. Her design here would be almost entirely speculative, as surviving artistic representations of Carthaginian female dancers seem to be non-existent, but I based her skirt on those worn by ancient Egyptian dancers. Most of the jewelry she is wearing is silver mined from the Iberian peninsula (modern Spain and Portugal).

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