Naval Warfare in the 3rd Century BC: Rams, Warships, and Officials
 

9.45am – 5.30pm
Monday 8 April 2013
A one day colloquium hosted by the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, to discuss the finds of the Egadi Islands Project (Sicily). The project, under the co-direction of Dr Jeff Royal (RPM Nautical Foundation) and Dr Sebastiano Tusa (Soprintendente del Mare, Regione Siciliana) has so far yielded a total of 10 ancient bronze warship rams, mostly recovered from the sea-bed off the western coast of Sicily, and marking the site of the final battle of the First Punic War (241 BC).

Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3LU

(location map and advice on how to get there)

9.45

 Registration and Welcome

10.00

Sebastiano Tusa (Soprintendenza del Mare, Regione Siciliana)
The Battle of the Egadi Islands: The Site and the Battle
10.30 William Murray (University of South Florida)
Observations on the Ship Class of the Egadi 1-7 Rams
11 Coffee
11.15 Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford)
The Latin Inscriptions
11.45 Tommaso Gnoli (University of Bologna)
The Rams from the Egadi Mirroring Petronius and John Lydus
12.15 Philip Schmitz (University of Eastern Michigan)
Egadi 3 Ram Inscription: Punic Text and Translation
12.30 Andrew Burnett (British Museum)
Coins, Prows, and Victories
12.45 Discussion
1.15 Lunch
2.00 Jeff Royal (RPM Nautical Foundation)
Ram Morphology and Warship Construction: An Archaeological Analysis
2.30 Fred Hocker (Vasa Museum)
Shells, Skeletons, and Things in between: Ship Structure in Ram-equipped Warships
3.00 Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway University of London)
The Egadi Rams: Triremes, Quadriremes or Quinqueremes?
3.30 Coffee
3.45 Discussion
5.30 Reception

 

All are welcome!
If you wish to attend, or would like more information, please contact the organiser:
Dr Jonathan Prag, Merton College, Oxford OX1 4JD / jonathan.prag @ merton.ox.ac.uk
With the generous support of:
Craven Fund of the Faculty of Classics, Oxford Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents Merton College, Oxford

Last updated: 22 March 2013