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| Coin attributed to Hannibal |
The problem is that we don't have any portrait that definitely depicts Hannibal.
Typically a coin portrait can be compared with marble or bronze busts.
There were at least three statues of Hannibal in Rome, as Pliny gives in n.h. 34,32, so there's a good chance that there is a Hannibal among our unidentified ancient portraits that have all been considered to be Hannibal at times:
- a young bronze ruler from Volubilis
- a bearded man in Kopenhagen
- a beardless portrait in Madrid
See G. Hafner in Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Madrid 14 (1973) p. 143.
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| Coin attributed to Hannibal (as Hercules) |
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| Coin attributed to Hannibal |
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| Silver Half-Shekel said to represent Hannibal c.220 BC |
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| Carthaginian shekel from the time of Hannibal (ca221-201BC) |
Hannibal was a black man believe it or not.
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