[1] Made of marble, it was discovered in the Italian city of Capua in 1667[2] and is housed in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

The bust is depicted on the five dinar banknote of Tunisia, 2013 series, the site of ancient Carthage.

[1] According to Australian historian Dexter Hoyos, there are "strong suspicions" that the bust is a Renaissance work rather than an ancient one.

[4] 19th-century iconographer Francis Pulzky believed the bust, instead of Hannibal, shows "the ideal representation of a hero" from the silver coins of Dernes of Phoenicia and Pharnabazus III.

American historian Theodore Ayrault Dodge regarded the Capuan bust as the only portrait "which has any claim to authenticity".