Hasdrubal’s head

Polybius gives 10,000 Carthaginian and Gallic dead and 2,000 Roman. Livy gives 56,000 Carthaginian dead, 5,400 prisoners and 8,000 Roman and allied dead, and modern historians accept his number of prisoners but not his dead. Several thousand Ligurians and Gauls who escape gather for a time and then scatter for want of a leader.

Hannibal recognising the head of his brother Hasdrubal, painting by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1726 to 1729Wikimedia Commons, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Public domain (Hannibal and the head of Hasdrubaf.jpg)

Nero marches back to his camp in Apulia and has Hasdrubal’s head thrown into Hannibal’s camp. With no hope left of reinforcement from Iberia, Hannibal gives up the towns he holds in much of southern Italy and withdraws to Bruttium, where he stays for four years.

Roman horsemen bring the head of Hasdrubal to Hannibal’s camp, engraving from a history of 1871Wikimedia Commons, Hugh Jass, Public domain (The Return of Hasdrubal's Head.jpg)

Sources

Polybius, Histories, book 11, 3.
Livy, History of Rome, book 27, 49 to 51.
Dexter Hoyos, Hannibal’s Dynasty (2003).

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