The javelin was the traditional Libyan weapon, used in Xerxes' army in 480 and shown in Persian sculpture. When the nationality of Carthage's javelin skirmishers is mentioned, they are usually called Moors, but il is likely that some were Libyan. The Libyan tribesmen who sometimes fought for Kyrene, and Carthage's disaffected subjects who sided with Agathokles of Syracuse and later joined the rebellious mercenaries, will mostly have been like tbis man. He is partly based on a description of skirmishers in Carthaginian service, probably Libyans, barefuot, dressed in red, with sbort sword and light round shie1ds. Like Carthaginians, the Libyans were noted for not wearing belts. Herodotos says they wore leather dothes, sometimes of goatskin with the hair removed, dyed red. Persian reliefs show Libyans in ankle-length robes with doaks which may be of skin, but shorter tunics are perhaps more likely for war. This man's head is shaven except for a plaited crest with a crescent ornament over the forehead; this is from a grave stele of the 2nd cemury AD, but in the 5th BC Herodotos describes the style as characteristic of the Makai. He also says the Makai used ostrich-skin shields. Curious hairstyles were characteristic of at her Libyan tribes too; the Machlyes wore their hair long at the back of the head, the Auses at tbe front, while tbe Maxyes shaved the left side oft he head but grew the hair long on the right, perhaps in a plaited scalplock. Libyans on Persian reliefs have short hair and short beards;"Some Libyans wore red body-paint or tattoos; Herodotos says tbe Gyzantes and Maxyes stained their bodies red, while Silius halicus mentions painted Moors. Much earlier Egyptian art shows Libyans with tattoos down the arms, as shown here, so this may weil be what is meant.