Under the Mediterranean: Marine AntiquitiesRoutledge and Kegan Paul, 1963 - 278 pages |
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Page 77
... port could be obtained only by repeating the processes Poidebard evolved , and many others as well . Before starting his survey , Poidebard knew that there had been two kinds of port at Tyre . Strabo describes them in his Geography ...
... port could be obtained only by repeating the processes Poidebard evolved , and many others as well . Before starting his survey , Poidebard knew that there had been two kinds of port at Tyre . Strabo describes them in his Geography ...
Page 93
... port . The rocky spur broke the swell on the west of the closed ports ; a wall , prob- ably topped by a sentry walk , ran along the seaward side , and at either end of it there were gaps . The natural reef was indented at these places ...
... port . The rocky spur broke the swell on the west of the closed ports ; a wall , prob- ably topped by a sentry walk , ran along the seaward side , and at either end of it there were gaps . The natural reef was indented at these places ...
Page 97
... port at Byblos was im- proved by man at an early date because pebble stones were found in the defence wall encircling one of the lower settlements in the tell . These came from the port , but from shallow water , as sand starts near the ...
... port at Byblos was im- proved by man at an early date because pebble stones were found in the defence wall encircling one of the lower settlements in the tell . These came from the port , but from shallow water , as sand starts near the ...
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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