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BlindOne
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Topic: Byzantine ships Posted: 30-Dec-2005 at 07:28 |
I have found a magazine with some photos of reconstructed Byzantine ships from the 7th-12 century. The photos are from an exibition that took place here in greece 1 or 2 years ago.
Here is a trade ship
A scout ship
A battle ship as it was in 7 century:
During the 9 century there have being huge changes in the Battle ship and the start to look like those:
A dromon:
2 ships called Caravos (quarib in arabic or Caravel in latin):
And at last a transport ship. That ship had the ability to through into the beach (and into the heat of a battle mounted units ). It name was taritis:
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Posted: 30-Dec-2005 at 10:54 |
Thats great i've never seen Byzantine ships in anything other than sketches and mosaics etc. Can't appreciate them properly unless you see them reconstructed like this.
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Posted: 30-Dec-2005 at 12:15 |
The dromon was their main naval ship for their military, correct?
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Posted: 30-Dec-2005 at 16:56 |
Originally posted by Herschel
The dromon was their main naval ship for their military, correct?
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Early on it was, light and fast. Played a prominent role in the battles
with the Arab navies. Later they resorted to using heavier vessels, the
dromon was a light vessel whose speed was its main advantage.
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Posted: 30-Dec-2005 at 19:20 |
Very interesting but what was your source for these beautiful pictures?
Oh Bline one are you really in Greece?
My mother was from Corinth but I live in Washington State, east side of the state -Spokane, Washington
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Posted: 31-Dec-2005 at 11:11 |
Originally posted by BlindOne
2 ships called Caravos (quarib in arabic or Caravel in latin):
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A spanish galleon????
Edited by Ikki
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Posted: 01-Jan-2006 at 13:06 |
Very nice.Thanks!
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Posted: 02-Jan-2006 at 04:49 |
Greetings and happy new year
To eaglecap: My source is a magazine ( I don't remember the name) with a military history subject. The photos are coming from an exibition about the byzantine ships in the centuries 7-12. The recostructions have been made from a univercity (i thinks the aegean, but i have to read the article again in order to confirm that). To make the recostructs they used Byzantine latin and arabic sources.
Yes i am from greece since born . I am from central greece, Thessalia, but i live now in Thessaloniki for univercity studies.
To Ikki: When i first saw the photos i thought the same. There are almost no recontruct of those ships not even a close image about how was them. But as you can see there are some differences , but the general shape of the ship is the same. But i don't understand why is that weird? Almost all the Byzantine ships was coppied by the arabs and the Venetians.
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