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Baumeister, Denkmaler, fig. 1689.
Guhl and Koner, Life of Greeks and Romans, fig. 299.
Smith, Diet. Ant. ii., p. 215.
Seyffert, Diet. Ant., p. 582.
Journal of Hellenic Studies, ii., pp. 90, 315.
The relief (fig. 8) probably commemorates a victory in a race
for triremes. A man (much mutilated) reclines on the deck.
Below three banks (στίχοι, ταρσώματα) of oars are shown ; the
rowers of the upper bank (θρανΐταί) alone being visible.
Fig. 4 is an attempt to explain the relief. The upper
rowers (θρανΐταώ) row with their oars bound to tholes (σκαλμοί)
which are fixed in the top of the gunwale, while the oars of the
middle rowr (£υγιται) pass through holes (τρνπήματα) in the
gunwale and those of the lower row (θαλαμΐταώ) through the
side of the hull.
Fig. 5 gives a section showing the probable arrangement of
seats, and the waling-pieces fixed to the side to carry the row-
locks. The latter is a very doubtful piece of interpretation.
The deck is shown supported on stanchions, but extends from
side to side instead of only part of the way. Fig. 6 gives a bird’s-
eye view of the arrangement. Fig. 7 is an imaginative restora-
tion of the whole trireme, which is wrong in placing a third mast
in the stern and in giving the mast in the bows a triangular
sail. The masts should be nearly the same size and placed as
in an English lugger.
For further details and other reconstructions see Baumeister
and Smith, Z<?r. eit.
Fig. 9.—Bronze Votive Lamp in the form of a Ship.
Found in the Erechtheum. In the Acropolis
Museum, Athens.
ΈφημςρΙς ’Αρχαιολογική, l802, p. 91.
Botticher, Abgiisse, No. 881.
The wick was placed on the step in which the mast should
stand. The stem in front (πρώρα) is surmounted by the
ακροστόλίον and the deck of the forecastle protected by raised
gunwales. The ram (Ζμβολον) is of the later Greek form, in two
parts. This is an improvement on the older form, as it lessens
the risk of damage to the ship ramming.
The gunwales amidships are bordered with a rope pattern
probably intended to represent the matting by which they were
made watertight.
The stern of the poop (πρΰρνρ) ends in a goosehead
(χηνίσκοζ). The beams which carried the poop deck and
the ring at the side to which the steering paddle was attached
are clearly shown.
Guhl and Koner, Life of Greeks and Romans, fig. 299.
Smith, Diet. Ant. ii., p. 215.
Seyffert, Diet. Ant., p. 582.
Journal of Hellenic Studies, ii., pp. 90, 315.
The relief (fig. 8) probably commemorates a victory in a race
for triremes. A man (much mutilated) reclines on the deck.
Below three banks (στίχοι, ταρσώματα) of oars are shown ; the
rowers of the upper bank (θρανΐταί) alone being visible.
Fig. 4 is an attempt to explain the relief. The upper
rowers (θρανΐταώ) row with their oars bound to tholes (σκαλμοί)
which are fixed in the top of the gunwale, while the oars of the
middle rowr (£υγιται) pass through holes (τρνπήματα) in the
gunwale and those of the lower row (θαλαμΐταώ) through the
side of the hull.
Fig. 5 gives a section showing the probable arrangement of
seats, and the waling-pieces fixed to the side to carry the row-
locks. The latter is a very doubtful piece of interpretation.
The deck is shown supported on stanchions, but extends from
side to side instead of only part of the way. Fig. 6 gives a bird’s-
eye view of the arrangement. Fig. 7 is an imaginative restora-
tion of the whole trireme, which is wrong in placing a third mast
in the stern and in giving the mast in the bows a triangular
sail. The masts should be nearly the same size and placed as
in an English lugger.
For further details and other reconstructions see Baumeister
and Smith, Z<?r. eit.
Fig. 9.—Bronze Votive Lamp in the form of a Ship.
Found in the Erechtheum. In the Acropolis
Museum, Athens.
ΈφημςρΙς ’Αρχαιολογική, l802, p. 91.
Botticher, Abgiisse, No. 881.
The wick was placed on the step in which the mast should
stand. The stem in front (πρώρα) is surmounted by the
ακροστόλίον and the deck of the forecastle protected by raised
gunwales. The ram (Ζμβολον) is of the later Greek form, in two
parts. This is an improvement on the older form, as it lessens
the risk of damage to the ship ramming.
The gunwales amidships are bordered with a rope pattern
probably intended to represent the matting by which they were
made watertight.
The stern of the poop (πρΰρνρ) ends in a goosehead
(χηνίσκοζ). The beams which carried the poop deck and
the ring at the side to which the steering paddle was attached
are clearly shown.