Under the Mediterranean: Marine AntiquitiesRoutledge and Kegan Paul, 1963 - 278 pages |
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... anchor . Moreover , a metal anchor bought in a shop may be a ' status symbol ' ; in any case , the stone or concrete sand - anchors are disappearing . A similar type of stone anchor is in current use in the Persian Gulf . Its survival ...
... anchor . Moreover , a metal anchor bought in a shop may be a ' status symbol ' ; in any case , the stone or concrete sand - anchors are disappearing . A similar type of stone anchor is in current use in the Persian Gulf . Its survival ...
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... anchor emblem which the Seleucid family used from 321 B.C. to A.D. 100. Legend has it that the mother of Seleucus gave her son a ring with an anchor on it and said that he would become king of that country in which he lost it . Another ...
... anchor emblem which the Seleucid family used from 321 B.C. to A.D. 100. Legend has it that the mother of Seleucus gave her son a ring with an anchor on it and said that he would become king of that country in which he lost it . Another ...
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... anchor : small flat stones with several holes pierced to take sticks which gripped into sand ; larger stones with a single hole which , on a rocky bottom , held a ship by weight alone , and lastly , a weight anchor combined with two ...
... anchor : small flat stones with several holes pierced to take sticks which gripped into sand ; larger stones with a single hole which , on a rocky bottom , held a ship by weight alone , and lastly , a weight anchor combined with two ...
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Henri Broussard | 6 |
Boat hanging from trees Crete | 10 |
eroded figures from same wreck | 19 |
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40 metres Afyon amphorae anchorage ancient wrecks Anthéor Anticythera aqualung archaeological archaeologists Barnier Beirut boat Bodrum bottle bottom Bronze Age buried Byblos Byzantine Cannes cargo castle centimetres closed ports coast concretions Congloué Cousteau Crete depth diving draughtsman drawings Dumas excavation fish Frédéric Dumas free-divers Greek Halicarnassos harbour harbour-works hole hull island Izmir Karabağla keel Kemal Knossos land later layer lead stocks Lebanon look Mahdia Mallia marine masonry Mediterranean metal method metres Minoan Mochlos mole Motya Museum Mustafa Nemi Nemi ships never objects Phoenician photographs planks Plate Poidebard quays recording reef remains ribs rock rock-cut Roman rope round salvage sand sea-bed seaward seen shallow water sherds ship side Sidon silt slope sponge sponge divers stone anchors structure submarine submerged surface survey swim Tabarja tanks thing tiles tion tombs took town trench tumulus Turkish Tyre underwater walls wood wooden wreck-formations