Posted on 01/21/2021 7:24:41 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The most significant find is the Roman-era shipwreck, which carried amphorae (Dressel 20) containing oil constructed in Spain in the area of Guadalquivir (1st to 3rd century AD), as well as Africana I amphorae made at the ceramic workshops of Africa Proconsularis and specifically in the region of present-day Tunisia, dating between the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
The underwater discovery also found another three shipwrecks:
one carrying amphorae made in the North Aegean in the Hellenistic era (1st century B.C.)
another carrying amphorae made in ancient Mendi during the Classical era (5th century B.C.)
a third that dates to more modern times
(Excerpt) Read more at tornosnews.gr ...
“amphorae”
The wine should be well aged now.
Found 400,000 more Biden votes.
Or some first-press olive oil that would make mothwatering dolmas............!
Bkm
Touché
Now they can close the insurance claim once and for all.
Very cool.
That, or olive oil.
When finding a sunken treasure tell no one until you have melted down the gold and hidden it in your back yard.
lol
Broken amphorae are not what I would consider “treasures”.
The mention of “Guadalquivir (1st to 3rd century AD)” makes no sense as the placename comes from Wadi al Kebir in Arabic.
Waaah.
If I were pathologically self-centered, that’s what I’d do.
Ancient Athens held an annual (?) vote about banishing someone for ten years.
Themistocles had led the years-long campaign to save Athens and Greece in general from conquest by the Persians.
Many in attendance couldn’t read.
Some helpful person inscribed Themistocles’ name on the ‘ballots’ and handed them out to attendees.
There sure were a lot of shipwrecks back then. Even St. Paul’s ship was wrecked in a storm, on his way to Rome.
Lloyd’s of London must have been bankrupt........................
In the book I’ve been reading, The Roman Empire in the Indian Ocean, I’ve learned that the underwriters of the rather massive seagoing commerce assumed a certain level of loss, they didn’t have insurance companies back then, per se, but Emperor Claudius covered costs (including lost cargo aboard ships that went down) to ensure the grain supply reached Rome.
LGY is down a nickel before market open, btw.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farasan_Islands#History
Kasos is about 35 miles east of the eastern end of the island of Crete (closer to Karpathos).
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