#Ksour Essef Cuirass

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Gilded bronze cuirass uncovered from a Carthaginian tomb near Ksour Essef in Tunisia, 3rd century BC

[steliosagapitos]

              ~ “Carthaginian breastplate. It dates from the 3rd century BC, when Carthage was at war with Rome.A Punic gilded bronze cuirass from Ksour Essaf, 3rd-2nd century BC. {Punic officer's armor/Golden bronze; Dated between 300 and 200 BC - Punic Era (Carthaginese)/ -  Campania (or Apulia)}. The faces of this piece have an embossed representation of the goddess Minerva with a helmet, decorated with three crests. A palm motif, is also present on each side of the head of the divinity. She wears a necklace of acorns. It was found in 1909, in a niche, on the side from the mortuary (a punic tomb), in the south of the village of Ksour Essef, precisely in the locality of Hammada-El-Mekata, twelve kilometres southwest of Mahdia, in the Sahel of Tunisia.” ~

[worldsandemanations]

Gilded bronze cuirass uncovered from a Carthaginian tomb near Ksour Essef in Tunisia, 3rd century BC

[blueiscoool]

Ksour Essef Cuirass

Date: between 300 and 200 BC. Medium: gilded bronze. Place of discovery: Ksour Essef, Tunisia. Discovered: 20 February 1909. Kept in the Bardo National Museum in Tunis.

The Ksour Essef cuirass is an ancient breastplate found in a Punic tomb in 1909 not far from Ksour Essef, Tunisia. This piece of armour, generally dated to the 3rd century BC, is of Italiote origin and comes from Southern Italy. Its discovery in Tunisia led researchers to link it to the expeditions of the Second Punic War led in Italy by the Carthaginian general Hannibal between 211 and 203 BC. This hypothesis, although tempting, is now widely questioned following in-depth examination, at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, of the various objects found in the tomb.

[barbariankingdom]

Ksour Essef cuirass is an ancient breastplate found in a Punic tomb in 1909 not far from Ksour Essef, Tunisia. Dated to the 3rd century BC, is of Italiote origin and comes from Southern Italy.

Bardo National Museum, Tunisia