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"Particularly rare" 2,200-year-old shipwreck looted and damaged off French coast
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| April 28, 2022
| CBS/AFP
Posted on 04/30/2022 9:09:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:09:08 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
To: 240B; 75thOVI; Adder; albertp; asgardshill; At the Window; bitt; blu; BradyLS; cajungirl; ...
There's a raft of new stuff on Archaeologica, some of it is coming soon.
The other GGG topics added since the last digest ping:
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:18:31 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Were any of the amphora unbroken? Is the wine still good?
I just looked up "amphora" and learned this: "characteristic shape and size which fit tightly against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land or sea. "
I never thought about the nesting characteristics of that shape as a way to maximize transportation efficiency.
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:18:34 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Instead of criminalizing guns, we need to criminalize criminals.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
My view is, there were no ties on them, they were placed in a bed of wheat (which was also shipped around the Med, but not economical in and of itself) -- hence the pointy end, which made it practical to extract the wine shipment piecemeal. After set in place, the jars were 2/3 buried in wheat. AFAIK, there's no evidence for tying them, and the wheat would have kept them stable, kept them from cracking in rough seas, and would have left them available. And the wheat would be also a saleable product.
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:24:01 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
My sources at Interpol tell me some of the looted wine has already been sold to a rich American boozer.
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:25:11 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(The steal is real.)
To: SunkenCiv
I would post a picture of the Katrina Looter guy, but I don’t have time.
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:28:05 AM PDT
by
Ken Regis
To: SunkenCiv
Do they have any idea whose ship this was, Roman, Carthaginian, or Scandinavian?
Was this a trading ship on the tin trade route?
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:28:30 AM PDT
by
seowulf
(Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
The rest of the Amphorae keyword:
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:29:26 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: seowulf
I’m sorry....finders keepers.
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:30:04 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
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To: seowulf
It wasn't Scandinavian. Probably Greek (Gaul, Italy, Sicily, or Ionian), possibly Carthaginian, Etruscan, or Phoenician.
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:32:16 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Leaning Right
She would not pay out of her own pocket. She would accept the gift.
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Oh, and the wine would be long gone, bummer, diffused into the sea water long ago. The jars themselves probably bore marks indicating contents, which may still be visible. Also, some success has been had identifying former contents by residues, even after long submergence. The jars themselves are generally only found whole on wrecks, as they were not typically reused, apparently, see the "Monte Testaccio" topic for more about that.
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:37:14 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Leaning Right; vaskypilot
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:38:02 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
I didn’t know teens could swim
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:48:29 AM PDT
by
dsrtsage
( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
To: Ken Regis
Sure enough! You called it!
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:50:44 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(Instead of criminalizing guns, we need to criminalize criminals.)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
I never thought of that either.
Thanks for posting that.
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:52:43 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
04/30/2022 9:56:22 AM PDT
by
rrrod
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To: rrrod
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posted on
04/30/2022 10:12:19 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
“for more than 2,000 years has been damaged and looted”
I should think teredo would have eaten them long since.
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posted on
04/30/2022 10:29:21 AM PDT
by
Buttons12
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posted on
04/30/2022 10:29:30 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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