Carved tablet from Carthage,19th-century artwork. The carvings depict birds,flowers,leaves and marine life,above an inscription in the Punic language used in Carthage. Carthage,in North Africa in what is now Tunisia,ruled a Mediterranean empire that reached the peak of its power in the third century BC. This artwork is from an 1842 communication by British antiquarian Hudson Gurney (1775-1864),with descriptions in French by the Danish Consul-General in Tunisia,C. T. Falbe (1791-1849). Published in Volume 30 (1844) of 'Archaeologia',the journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London |