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Carthaginian mercenary system
Carthage's system of raising armies from hired foreign troops and paid subject levies rather than citizen soldiers, which collapsed into the Mercenary War of 241 to 238 BC.
Carthaginian mother goddess inscription
The Carthaginian mother goddess inscription, cataloged as KAI 88, is a Punic votive stele from Carthage in which a woman dedicates a stone to Tanit and Ba'al Hammon.
Carthaginian navy
The Carthaginian navy was the citizen-manned fleet of Carthage, built around the quinquereme and based in a circular war harbor; defeat by Rome in the First Punic War ended its supremacy.
Carthaginian siege of Syracuse (278 BC)
The Carthaginian siege of Syracuse was a 278 BC Carthaginian land and naval attack on Syracuse, lifted when the Epirote king Pyrrhus landed and marched on the city.
Carthaginian slaughterhouse inscription
The Carthaginian slaughterhouse inscription, better known as the Carthage Tariff (KAI 74), is a large Punic limestone inscription from Carthage fixing the fees priests could charge for sacrifices.
Carthaginian tombstones
Carthaginian tombstones are Punic funerary stelae and epitaphs from the necropoleis of Carthage, in present-day Tunisia, spanning the city's Punic period from about 800 BCE to the Roman destruction in 146 BCE.
Carthalo (admiral)
Carthalo was a Carthaginian admiral of the First Punic War who in 249 BC attacked the Roman fleet off Lilybaeum and intercepted a supply convoy near Phintias.
Carthalo (democrat)
Carthalo was a Carthaginian politician of the democratic faction who, with Hamilcar the Samnite, led the war party that attacked Masinissa's partisans and was proscribed in 149 BC.
Carthalo (officer of Hannibal)
Carthalo, also known as Karthalo, was a Carthaginian cavalry commander in Hannibal's army during the Second Punic War; in 210 BC he led an embassy to Rome negotiating a prisoner exchange.
Catalogue of Texts and Authors
The Catalogue of Texts and Authors is a Mesopotamian scholarly catalog that links Akkadian literary works to named authors with the phrase "from the mouth of" (ša pî).
Cats in ancient Egypt
Cats in ancient Egypt: tamed Felis silvestris kept for pest control and as pets from Predynastic Hierakonpolis onward, associated with the goddess Bastet, and mummified by the millions as votive offerings at Bubastis and Saqqara.
Caucones
The Caucones (Kaukones) were a shadowy ancient people whom Homer lists among Troy's allies, placed by later Greek tradition in Paphlagonia and the western Peloponnese.
Çebel Ires Dağı inscription
The Çebel Ires Dağı inscription, also spelled Cebelireis, is a Phoenician-language land-grant inscription found in 1980 on Mount Cebelireis near Alanya in southern Turkey, dated to the 7th century BCE.
Cesnola Phoenician inscriptions
The Cesnola Phoenician inscriptions are Phoenician texts from Cyprus, excavated by Luigi Palma di Cesnola in the 1860s and 1870s and held mainly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Chagar Bazar tablets
The Chagar Bazar tablets, also known as the Ashnakkum tablets, are an Old Babylonian archive of cuneiform records from Ašnakkum in the Habur triangle, Syria, found by Max Mallowan in 1935.
Chaldean dynasty
The Chaldean dynasty, also called the Neo-Babylonian dynasty, was the last dynasty of independent Babylonia, founded by Nabopolassar in 626 BC and ended by Cyrus the Great in 539 BC.
Charibael
Charibael (Sabaic Karibʾīl) was the first-century king of the Homerites and Sabaites in southern Arabia, ruling from Ẓafar and a friend of the Roman emperors.
Chariots of Tutankhamun
The Chariots of Tutankhamun are six dismantled chariots found in his tomb (KV62) at Thebes, dating to about 1332–1323 BCE, the only complete chariots from a single Egyptian burial.
Charmion
Charmion, also spelled Charmian, was one of Cleopatra VII's two attendants who died with the queen at Alexandria in 30 BC, remembered for her last words in Plutarch's account.
Chemosh-yat
Chemosh-yat, also known as Kemosh-yatti, was a king of Moab in the ninth century BC, the father and predecessor of Mesha, who names him on the Mesha Stele.
Cherchell Neopunic inscriptions
The Cherchell Neopunic inscriptions are Neo-Punic stone texts found at Cherchell, Algeria, the Mauretanian capital; the best known, Cherchell I, is a funerary tablet in the Louvre.
Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus
The Chester Beatty Medical Papyrus, also known as Papyrus Chester Beatty VI, is an Egyptian medical papyrus from Deir el-Medina and the earliest known treatise on anorectal diseases.
Chief of the Libu
Chief of the Libu was an Egyptian title for the leader of the Libu, a Libyan tribal people settled in Egypt's western Delta during the Third Intermediate Period.
Christianization of Aksum
The Christianization of Aksum, or Conversion of Ezana, was King Ezana's adoption of Christianity as Aksum's official religion in the 330s–340s AD, among the first such kingdoms.
Chronicle of Early Kings
The Chronicle of Early Kings is a Babylonian chronicle, known from two British Museum tablets, narrating kings from Sargon of Akkad to Agum III around 1500 BC.
Chronicle of Prince Osorkon
The Chronicle of Prince Osorkon, or Osorkon Chronicle, is a hieroglyphic inscription at Karnak in which Prince Osorkon narrates his suppression of a Theban rebellion.
Chronicle P
Chronicle P, also known as ABC 22 or the Chronicle of the Kassite Kings, is a Babylonian chronicle narrating Assyrian, Babylonian, and Elamite conflicts of the 14th to 12th centuries BCE.
Çiftlik stele
The Çiftlik stele is a Neo-Hittite stone monument from Ovaçiftlikköy in Kayseri Province, Turkey, bearing a mid-8th-century BC Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription by a servant of the Tabalian ruler Tuwati.
CIH 6
CIH 6 is a Late Sabaic construction inscription from Maʾrib, Yemen, dated year 573 of the Himyarite era, recording a house built in one year and furnished with two carved lions.
Cilles
Cilles was a Macedonian commander serving Ptolemy I who, after the Battle of Gaza, was surprised and captured by Demetrius Poliorcetes at Myus in 311 BC, then released with gifts.