03-13-2009, 07:25 PM
May be I must reconsider that I said earlier in this thread about currents. I founds this map ...
http://www.ifm-geomar.de/fileadmin/ifm- ... circ2c.gif
... and that could indeed take a ship(-wreck?), blown away from its course along the westcost of Africa, to Brasil.
However, I read this article about the find were talking about ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1038045/posts
... and it quotes Dr. Elizabeth Lyding Will (an expert on Roman amphoras), that these amphoras:
"[...] are in fact similar in shape to jars produced in kilns at Kouass, on the west coast of Morocco."
But she says further that: "[...] .no labs I have consulted have any clay similar in composition."
a typical roman merchant
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/63/c ... nterd3.gif
With their form, they are suited to high sees, rather than the "flat", long and almost keel-less warships.
I took the picture from a thread which has many more very good pictures of antiquity ships.
http://www.nexusboard.net/sitemap/8501/ ... ntike-t38/
... its in German, but the images are really worth a look.
http://www.ifm-geomar.de/fileadmin/ifm- ... circ2c.gif
... and that could indeed take a ship(-wreck?), blown away from its course along the westcost of Africa, to Brasil.
However, I read this article about the find were talking about ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1038045/posts
... and it quotes Dr. Elizabeth Lyding Will (an expert on Roman amphoras), that these amphoras:
"[...] are in fact similar in shape to jars produced in kilns at Kouass, on the west coast of Morocco."
But she says further that: "[...] .no labs I have consulted have any clay similar in composition."
Quote:Well like I said I am not an expert, and I appreciate to info on the merchant ships, i thought they were all based on the trireme design.
a typical roman merchant
http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/63/c ... nterd3.gif
With their form, they are suited to high sees, rather than the "flat", long and almost keel-less warships.
I took the picture from a thread which has many more very good pictures of antiquity ships.
http://www.nexusboard.net/sitemap/8501/ ... ntike-t38/
... its in German, but the images are really worth a look.
[size=85:2j3qgc52]- Carsten -[/size]