H 245 x W 175 mm
226 pages
35 figures, 2 tables, 4 maps (colour throughout)
Published Mar 2021
ISBN
Paperback: 9781789699159
Digital: 9781789699166
Keywords
Adriatic sea; Iron Age; Maritime; Underwater archaeology; Liburnians; Illyrian Lembs
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This book explores the origins of two types of ancient ship connected with the protohistoric eastern Adriatic area: the ‘Liburnian’ and the southern Adriatic ‘lemb’. An extensive overview of written, iconographic and archaeological evidence questions the existing scholarly assumption that the liburna and lemb were closely related.
Preface ;
1. Introduction ;
Research problems and previous scholarship ;
Overview of the book ;
Terminology ;
2. Geographical context ;
3. Eastern Adriatic populations in the 1st millennium BC ;
The Liburni ;
Other Iron Age Eastern Adriatic indigenous seafaring groups ;
Greek colonising activities in the eastern Adriatic ;
Piracy in the eastern Adriatic? ;
Conclusion ;
4. Archaeological and iconographic evidence in protohistoric eastern Adriatic ;
Underwater finds ;
Iconography ;
Protohistoric archaeological and iconographical sources for eastern Adriatic ships ;
5. Written Sources on Lembs And Liburnians from the 4th c. BC to Late Antiquity ;
Introduction ;
Lemb ;
Liburnian ;
6. Discussion ;
Lemb ;
Liburnian ;
Etymology ;
Overview of usage of the terms lemb and liburnian in ancient sources from the 4th century BC until Late Antiquity ;
Lemb and liburnian: the same ship? ;
Conclusion ;
Bibliography ;
Ancient authors not listed in Chapter 5 ;
Modern sources