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Roman ships are named in different ways, often in compound expressions with the word Latin: navis, lit. 'ship'.These are found in many ancient Roman texts, and named in different ways, such as by the appearance of the ship: for example, navis tecta (covered ship); or by its function, for example: navis mercatoria (commerce ship), or navis praedatoria (plunder ship).
Ships operating in the geographical area of the Roman Empire, from the foundation of the Republic in 509 BC to the end of the Imperial period in the 5th century AD. Pages in category "Ancient Roman ships"
Model of a Roman bireme. The generic Roman term for an oar-driven galley warship was "long ship" (Latin: navis longa, Greek: naus makra), as opposed to the sail-driven navis oneraria (from onus, oneris: burden), a merchant vessel, or the minor craft (navigia minora) like the scapha. [87]
Military vessel Ancient Rome Germany 49 ft (15 m) Oberstimm 2: 100 AD [51] [50] Military vessel Ancient Rome Germany (Manching) 50.5 ft (15.4 m) Barchino F: 2nd century AD [52] Boat Ancient Rome Italy (Pisa) 29.5 ft (9.0 m) Ship A: 2nd century AD [53] Shipping vessel Ancient Rome Italy (Pisa) 98 ft (30 m) [g] De Meern 1: 148 AD [54] Barge ...
The vessels could be classified into two types, namely small troop transports (Mainz 1, 2, 4, 5) termed navis lusoria and a patrol vessel (Mainz 3). [4] The lusoria is narrower than the actuaria, an earlier and wider type of Roman cargo vessel.
During the most recent campaign, divers removed 34 ancient pottery vessels from the stern of the ship and found some unique markings underneath, the museum wrote in an April 11 post on X, formerly ...
The Roman suffix is from rēmus, "oar": [1] hence "five-oar". As the vessel cannot have had only five oars, the word must be a figure of speech meaning something else. There are a number of possibilities. The -ηρης occurs only in suffix form, deriving from ἐρέσσω (eréssō), "(I) row". [2]
The wreck of an ancient Roman cargo ship from more than 2,000 years ago has been found off the coast near Rome, the arts squad of Italy's Carabinieri police said on Friday. The ship was located ...