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Ships of ancient Rome. Ancient Rome had a variety of ships that played crucial roles in its military, trade, and transportation activities. [1] Rome was preceded in the use of the sea by other ancient, seafaring civilizations of the Mediterranean. The galley was a long, narrow, highly maneuverable ship powered by oarsmen, sometimes stacked in ...
The Roman Fleet, Roman-Empire.net; The Roman Navy: Masters of the Mediterranean, HistoryNet.com; Galleria Navale on Navigare Necesse Est; Port of Claudius, the museum of Roman merchant ships found in Fiumicino (Rome) Diana Nemorensis, Caligula's ships in the lake of Nemi. Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz: The Fleets and Roman Border Policy
Category. : Ancient Roman ships. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ancient Roman ships. Ships operating in the geographical area of the Roman Empire, from the foundation of the Republic in 509 BC to the end of the Imperial period in the 5th century AD.
The Greek trireme was the most common ship of the ancient Mediterranean world, employing the propulsion power of oarsmen. Mediterranean peoples developed lighthouse technology and built large fire-based lighthouses, most notably the Lighthouse of Alexandria , built in the 3rd century BC (between 285 and 247 BC) on the island of Pharos in ...
Hellenistic-era warships. The famous 2nd century BC Nike of Samothrace, standing atop the prow of an oared warship, most probably a trihemiolia. From the 4th century BC on, new types of oared warships appeared in the Mediterranean Sea, superseding the trireme and transforming naval warfare. Ships became increasingly large and heavy, including ...
Obelisk ship. Ships were used during the Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt to transport obelisks from the quarry to their destination. Fifteen centuries later, the Romans used ships to transport obelisks across the Mediterranean to Rome. Today, eight ancient Egyptian obelisks stand in Rome, though not in their original places.
The Roman ship Isis was a very large ship that operated on the Mediterranean during the Roman Empire around 150 AD, carrying grain from Egypt to Italy. The Isis was apparently 55 meters (180 feet) long and had a beam of 13.7 meters (45 feet). Its cargo hold was 13.4 meters (44 feet) deep. [3] It has a carrying capacity of 1200 short tons or ...
Navis lusoria. A reconstructed navis lusoria at the Museum of Ancient Seafaring, Mainz. A lusoria (short form of navis lusoria from Latin '"dancing/playful ship"', plural naves lusoriae) was type of a small military vessel of the late Roman Empire that served as a troop transport. It was powered by about thirty soldier- oarsmen and an auxiliary ...