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Most awesome, thanks Jeff!
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As the Egadi battle was big and important then they might find many of these and get some "body count", now that they know were to look.
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Phantastic find, another one beside the few they have found up to now - what could it be that is hanging down from the ram (on the photo to the left) ? Also on the right side seem to be two more (metallic?) objects.
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Where was this? I assume it's recent.
Seems to be laying in shallow water. Was that how it was found?
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That is pretty cool... Any idea on the dimensions and/or weight?
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There should be several hundred of these lying off the coast of Sicily, from the Punic war period.
They lost fleets in both battles and storms.
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The thing "hanging" from the rostrum is a sea creature... I dont see the metallic objects you refer to.
if the find is recent it is brilliant, but whether or not it is Punic or Triumviral is of course the question.
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Hey Uwe, i see the objects... they dont seem related, but i think maybe an underwater excavation would be in place here.... Of course it could also be that this rostrum simply was lost during a storm, we cannot se the rear so we do not know if the nails holding it were torn off by a ramming action or some other reason exists for losing it...
Very interesting find, however still in the shadows...
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This is great news and adds to my tally of surviving ancient rams:
- Atlit ram:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... _ram-1.jpg
- one purportedly in the Ship Museum in Bremen, Germany
- this one
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Hi all,
is this the same ram?
[url:2cc4bakb]http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/506[/url]
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Uwe, I don't think it is. The text under the photo in the original link refers to it being found in August, I think. il 18 agosto scorso means the last or previous 18th of August. Given that the post was made this September, I would assume the find is only a month or so old.
Excellent post, thanks, Goffredo!
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