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The site of the Battle of the Aegates Islands at the end of the First Punic War : fieldwork, analyses and perspectives, 2005-2015
324 p. : ill. (some col.)
- The final battle of the First Punic war between the Romans and Carthaginians, the Battle of the Aegates Islands, took place in 241 B.C. Under the Egadi Islands Survey Project led by the Soprintendenza del Mare, Sicily, intensive survey resulted in unique discoveries from an ancient battlefield. This publication includes the field seasons from 2010-15. Finds of bronze warship rams, armor, amphoras, inscriptions, and evidence of shipwreck sites confirm the discovery of this ancient naval battle landscape. Moreover, these artifacts provide new lines of inquiry into Latin epigraphy and the role of officials, the formation of battle landscapes, the dimensions of warships and their rams, types of personal armor, cultural change during the 3rd century B.C., and the economics of fleet construction during the First Punic War. [Publisher's text]
- Collected essays.
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ISBN: 9788891318350
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In diesem Band
- Tabula gratulatoria
- Premessa
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Archaeological finds as true evidences of the Egadi battle
- History of the project and overview of the site
- The ship class of the Egadi rams and Polybius' account of the First Punic War.
- The warship rams : depositional contexts and descriptions
- Bronze rostra : the Latin inscriptions
- The rams from the Aegates Islands : further considerations
- The Punic inscription
- Egadi ram no. 3 : proposed Punic text and translation
- Iconographic and epigraphic considerations on the Egadi rostra
- Iconographic elements on the warship rams
- The bronze helmets from the battle of the Aegates Islands
- Carthaginian finds from the Egadi battle area
- Amphoras and tablewares
- The small finds
- Ram manufacture and the nature of bronze objects
- La manifattura di alcuni rostri delle Egadi
- The warships : construction and tactics
- Perspectives on the Battle of the Aegates Islands
- General bibliography