guy Posted March 8, 2022 Report Share Posted March 8, 2022 (edited) Although the details are still not clear, it appears that an Ancient Roman merchant ship found off the the coast of Mallorca, Spain is being investigated more closely. This finding supports the belief that a brisk trade existed among the elites in the Balearic Islands. Quote “In addition to the clay jars – which still bear their painted inscriptions or tituli picti– archaeologists have found a leather shoe, a rope shoe, a cooking pot, an oil lamp, and only the fourth Roman carpenter’s drill recovered from the area. “The things were so perfectly preserved that we found pieces of textiles, a leather shoe and an espadrille,” explains Dr. Miguel Ángel Cau, an archaeologist at the University of Barcelona. The team found no trace of the boat’s crew other than their personal belongings, suggesting they may have reached shore or been swept away by the waves. What they left behind, however, is intriguing. A lamp, which bears an obviously pagan symbol of the moon goddess Diana, and the Christian signs which appear on the seals of some of the amphoras. “The crew were probably pagans, but some of the goods they carried bear Christian symbols,” he says. “You have to be careful how you interpret that – this cargo could have come from an ecclesiastical authority – but you have this coexistence between the pagan and the Christian. https://goadnews.com/a-roman-ship-that-sank-in-the-mediterranean-1700-years-ago-gives-up-its-treasures-archeology/ Edited May 18 by guy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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