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The Late Hellenistic military ship of Phanagoria: New data for the reconstruction of the ship

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The ship of Phanagoria was discovered in 2012 during the exploration of the port structures of the ancient city. The remains are nearly 16 m long and 2.7 m wide and preserved up to the caprail on port side. In 2014, a bronze casing decorated with a crescent and a five-rayed star was found 1.5 m to the west of the bow end. This bronze casing and the slender shape of the vessel have provided arguments to identify it with a military unit associated to Mithridates VI Eupator. This article presents the process carried out recently to reconstruct the original shape of the ship of Phanagoria, and discuss the results.

DOI: 10.15291/9789533315201.34

Authors: Giulia Boetto, Sergey V. Olkhovskiy, Pierre Poveda

Institutions: Centre Camille Jullian, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology

Language: English

Topic: Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: gold

OpenAlex ID: W3207035451

FWCI: 4.026

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