The Battle of the Saw was the culminating battle of a campaign fought between a Carthaginian army led by Hamilcar Barca and a rebel force led by Spendius in 238 BC in what is now northern Tunisia. Car
The rebels starve in the area known as "the Saw", as envisaged by Paul Buffet [fr] in 1894.
Modern recreations of Carthaginian soldiers and a war elephant at the 2012 Arverniales re-enactment
Roman statuette of a war elephant, recovered from Pompeii
19th century French illustrator Victor-Armand Poirson envisages the crucifixion of Spendius and his lieutenants in front of Tunis.