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a friendly reminder that i love and support ancient carthage in everything they do

[a photo of a history book page held open by a thumb with INCREDIBLE nail polish. the page depicts a battering ram being raised from the ocean, and says:

“8. Remnants of the First Punic War raised from the bottom of the sea off Sicily: here one of the rams of the warships. Several of these have writing stamped into the bronze. On the Roman rams we can read traces of officialdom: ‘Lucius Quinctius the son of Gaius, the quaestor, approved this ram.’ On the one surviving inscribed Carthaginian ram, we read: ‘We pray to Baal that this ram will go into this enemy ship and make a big hole.’ It is a clear contrast in national ‘style.’”]