Ancient Shipwrecks of the Adriatic: Maritime transport during the first and second centuries AD

ISBN-13: 9781841710396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 182 str.

Mario Jurisic

Opis

A study of the maritime connections between the Adriatic and Mediterranean from the first Greek contacts and subsequent Greek colonisation, through to the Roman and Early Byzantine periods. Much of the information comes from underwater sites and finds, allowing the reconstruction of cargoes, ships and harbours and sea routes. The cargoes, comprising largely pottery vessels, glass, stone and metal objects, are illustrated alongside maps of their origins and distribution. An important corpus of material including a catalogue of sites.

This book explores trade routes along the Eastern Adriatic coast based primarily on the evidence of numerous 1st and 2nd century shipwrecks. All the known shipwrecks are catalogued, and the different cargoes as well as the ships' equipment, mostly amphorae and pottery, is discussed. Material found in the underwater sites of Croatia comes from the eastern workshops of the Aegean, but also from Hispania, Italy and Africa.