Gaia (king)

Gaia (Numidian: {{Sc|Gyy}}){{Citation|last=Huß|first=Werner (Bamberg)|title=Massylii|date=2006-10-01|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/massylii-e726010#|work=Brill’s New Pauly|publisher=Brill|language=en|access-date=2022-01-20}}{{Cite book|last=Sanctis|first=Gaetano De|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zlRoAAAAMAAJ&q=Gjj|title=Storia dei Romani: L'età delle guerre puniche. (2 Pt.)|date=1968|publisher="La Nuova Italia" editrice|pages=505|language=it}} (died 207 BCE) was a Berber king of the Massylii,Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, 24.48 an eastern Numidian tribe in North Africa.

Gaia reigned during the Second Punic War of ancient Rome. He was the father of King Masinissa,{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hDAOAAAAQAAJ|title=The history of Titus Livius, with the entire supplement of J. Freinsheim; tr. into Engl|last1=Livius|first1=Titus|last2=Freinsheim|first2=Johann|date=1815-01-01|pages=536|language=en}} and the brother of Oezalces.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTNTz3POoZUC|title=The Cambridge History of Africa|last=Fage|first=J. D.|date=1979-02-01|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521215923|pages=180|language=en}}

Greco-Roman authors give his name as "Gala", but an inscription in Dougga indicates it may have instead been "Gaia".{{cite book|last1=Roller|first1=Duane W|title=The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene: Royal Scholarship on Rome's African Frontier|date=2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134402960|page=12|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1eaBAgAAQBAJ&q=numidia+gala+gaia+name&pg=PA12|access-date=15 September 2015}}