This would be my artistic depiction of a “hoplite”, or spearman, from ancient Carthage. Most of the fighters in the Carthaginian army would have actually been foreign mercenaries of various ethnicities (some African, others Iberian, still others Celtic, etc.), but this particular soldier would be a Carthaginian citizen of noble heritage forming part of an elite unit call the “Sacred Band”. When designing his armor and equipment, I wanted to mix common “classical” Mediterranean elements (e.g. the linothorax armor he is wearing over his torso) with recognizably African ones. As for his physical appearance, it would reflect generations of admixture between the Phoenician colonists who founded Carthage and native Africans.