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I've read that in the Punic/Carthagenian/Phoenician tradition, name formulae only included filiation, i.e. Abdmelqart son of Adnibal. But why is then Hannibal known as Hannibal Barca and his family known as the Barcid dynasty?

by /u/mythoplokos in /r/AskHistorians

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