Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean by David Blackman, Boris Rankov, Kalliopi Baika, Henrik Gerding, Jari Pakkanen
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Description This is the first detailed and comprehensive study of the shipshed complexes which housed the navies of the ancient Mediterranean. A comprehensive analytical survey of the evidence, with a catalogue and plans of all the major sites, it will be an indispensable guide to students of maritime history and archaeologists excavating similar remains.
Publisher Description
This is the first detailed and comprehensive study of the shipshed complexes which housed the great navies of the Greco-Roman world, including Athens and Carthage. These complexes represented some of the largest and most expensive building projects of antiquity, and the volume provides a comprehensive survey of the archaeological and literary evidence. It explains how the buildings were carefully designed to keep warships dry and out of reach of shipworm, whilst enabling them to be launched quickly, easily and safely when required. It also serves as a handbook for archaeologists who may excavate such buildings, which are often difficult to identify and interpret. The analytical chapters are complemented by a full and detailed catalogue of known sheds, with plans for all the major sites specially drawn for easy comparison. The book thus provides an indispensable guide for all those interested in these buildings and in the maritime infrastructure of the ancient world.
Author Biography
David Blackman has been carrying out and publishing research on ancient harbours for over forty years; as a postgraduate student he provided an analysis of the then known remains of ancient shipsheds (published in 1968 in Morrison and Williams' Greek Oared Ships), which were one key factor in the design of the Olympias trireme reconstruction. The present book is a culmination of that work. In 1997 he became Director of the British School at Athens, and has been based in Oxford since 2002. Boris Rankov is Professor of Ancient History at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 1987 he recruited the first trials crew of 170 rowers to operate the Olympias trireme reconstruction, and was one of the rowing masters on the ship in 1988, 1990 and 1992. In 1996, he succeeded John Morrison as Chairman of the Trireme Trust, and subsequently co-authored the second edition of The Athenian Trireme (Cambridge, 2000). Alongside work on the Roman army and its epigraphy, ancient oared ships have remained a focus of his research and publication, including Trireme Olympias: The Final Report (2012) and the present volume. Kalliopi Baika has a Ph.D. from the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has worked at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been Visiting Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology at the University of the Peloponnese and is now a maritime archaeologist at the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. She specialises in Greek harbour archaeology and coastal geoarchaeology in the Aegean and Mediterranean. Henrik Gerding has a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History from Lunds Universitet, Sweden. He has worked at Royal Holloway, University of London and Uppsala University and is now Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Lunds Universitet. His research has been mainly on ancient architecture, and his published works include a monograph on the tomb of Caecilia Metella outside Rome. Jari Pakkanen is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London and has been a Co-Director of the Project. He specialises in Greek architecture, and from summer 2013 is the Director of the Finnish Institute at Athens.
Details ISBN 1107001331 ISBN-13 9781107001336 Title Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean Author David Blackman, Boris Rankov, Kalliopi Baika, Henrik Gerding, Jari Pakkanen Format Hardcover Year 2014 Pages 617 Publisher Cambridge University Press GE_Item_ID:78743158; About Us
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