Tradition has it that the city of
Carthage was founded by Dido, a Phoenician queen, in the ninth century B.C. after her flight from Tyre. Arriving at the site of
Carthage after a vision a priestess of
Juno dug in the ground and discovered the
head of a bullock. This was not a
good omen as bullocks and oxen were servile
animals. The priestess again dug and this time found a horse's
head, a far better omen as a
horse is symbolic of war and martial glory. A temple to
Juno was built on the spot, and the figure of a horse's
head was adopted by the Carthaginians and used on their coins.
You are therefore correct the
horse relates to the
legend of the founding of
Carthage, Regarding the
Palm, one possible answer is the Greek for
palm tree I understand is
'phoinix", which was also their name for a Phoenician