Under the Mediterranean: Marine AntiquitiesRoutledge and Kegan Paul, 1963 - 278 pages |
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Page 84
... walls of Mahdia , Sidon and Ruad . The rock having been flattened at water - level , a trench was cut to hold the foundations of a wall ; some of the blocks are still in situ . The mole which bounds all three docks , as it continues ...
... walls of Mahdia , Sidon and Ruad . The rock having been flattened at water - level , a trench was cut to hold the foundations of a wall ; some of the blocks are still in situ . The mole which bounds all three docks , as it continues ...
Page 97
... walls and its orientation in relation to the local sources of silt , it is possible for this type of creek to keep itself clear . It has been suggested , on archaeological evidence , that the round port at Byblos was im- proved by man ...
... walls and its orientation in relation to the local sources of silt , it is possible for this type of creek to keep itself clear . It has been suggested , on archaeological evidence , that the round port at Byblos was im- proved by man ...
Page 143
... walls ' ; probably by the fountain of Salmacis , as the sponge boats do today . I find it difficult to interpret such statements literally ; leaving boats ' on ' the beach may be a figure of speech , for in sheltered , tideless ...
... walls ' ; probably by the fountain of Salmacis , as the sponge boats do today . I find it difficult to interpret such statements literally ; leaving boats ' on ' the beach may be a figure of speech , for in sheltered , tideless ...
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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