Flags or symbols for ancient people

[Steph]

I'm trying to find what "flag", or standard, or symbol, I could use for the ancient Germanic tribes for
- early bronze age
- late bronze age
- early iron age
- late iron age.

As there was no "state" at the time, something symbolic can work.

For instance, for Italy in the Early Bronze age, I have used a simplified drawing of a Estruscan horse.

What would go well for th Germanic tribes? Ideally, I would need 4 pictures.


I would also need similar pictures for Iberia, Scandinavia and Russia

 

[Traitorfish]

These could work for Scandinavia:

Early Bronze Age: Snoldelev Symbol
Late Bronze Age: Valknut
Early Iron Age: Tjängvide Odin
Late Iron Age: Thor's Hammer

The actual use of the symbols overlaps, but, from what I can tell, they emerge in roughly this order.

 

[Steph]

Thank, this is exactly the kind of things I could use.

 

[Steph]

I have Russia and Scandinavia covered.

I am only missing symbols / flags for Germany and Iberia, bronze age and iron age.

Any suggestion?

 

[Tee Kay]

Perhaps you could use the symbols from Rome:Total War.

Spain
Germania

 

[GoodGame]

Something Celtiberian?
http://www.theancientweb.com/images/explore/Portugal_Lunula_Torque.jpg

 

[Steph]

Now, I moved to Arabia.

What flag symbols could I use for
Aremeans
Edomites
Ammonites
Thamud?

 

[Steph]

So, still no one to help with Aremeans, Edomites, Ammonites and Thamud?

 

[spryllino]

You know it should be spelt Aramaeans?

Esau, progenitor of Edom, sold his birthright to Jacob for a pot of red lentil stew: in the absense of anything else you could conceivably try that.

 

[Tee Kay]

How about a four-toed statue?

 

[Steph]

The spelling mistake is just a typo.

What is this statue?

Also, I am very bad at creating graphics. The only thing I can do is take existing graphics to editr / resize / merge, so I'd apreciate a link to some picture I can use as a base.

 

[Tee Kay]

Spoiler :

Don't worry, it's a LOST reference

More seriously, I don't think any of them did left a national symbol. For Ammon I guess you could always base it on the flag of modern Amman, Jordan.

There are still people calling themselves the Aramaeans (though their connections to the ancient Aramaeans are controversial). You could use their modern flag:

 

[Steph]

I have found flags and symbols for Arabia, and now I have moved to North Africa.

I have flags for Almohad, Marinid, Almoravid.

But I don't know what to use for Carthage and Libyan. Did they use some type of standard or flag? I can only find modern flag of Tunisia

 

[Tee Kay]

What about the Civ4 Carthaginian flag, Steph?

Note: that's a representation of Tanit.

 

[Steph]

I found this

Perhaps I can use the other one in a black and white version for ancient Libya?

 

[Steph]

I think I will use different versions of Tanit symbol for the first 3 eras, then the battle standard of Carthage, and then the Almoravid.

Should work fine

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Don't use the Amman flag; it spells out "Amman" in modern Arabic letters.

 

[Tee Kay]

Then remove the Arabic characters.

 

[Mad Man]

I have found flags and symbols for Arabia, and now I have moved to North Africa.

I have flags for Almohad, Marinid, Almoravid.

But I don't know what to use for Carthage and Libyan. Did they use some type of standard or flag? I can only find modern flag of Tunisia

Would a Vandal Carthage flag do? if so

 

[Lockesdonkey]

Then remove the Arabic characters.

That won't work, either; the symbol is completely untraditional.

Would a Vandal Carthage flag do? if soView attachment 253738

Probably not, as ultimately the Vandals arrived in Carthage long after the actual Carthaginians were gone. The fact that the Vandals were Germanic in every possible way aside, the people living in Carthage at the time of the invasion were mostly Romanized Berbers, rather than the Phoenician Carthaginians the OP is probably thinking of. The Berbers are native to North Africa and their languages are a separate branch of Afro-Asiatic; the Carthaginians (as in the actual ones that Rome fought in the third century BC) were Phoenician Canaanite Semites (a wholly other Afro-Asiatic branch), more closely related to Jews and Arabs (particularly Jews) than the Berbers. Carthage itself had been founded a Phoenician colony, probably founded by Tyrians in the 9th century BCE.