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Author Borsić, Luka

Title Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (226 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Abbreviations -- Primary sources -- Modern literature -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Research problems and previous scholarship -- 1.2. Overview of the book -- 1.3. Terminology -- 2. Geographical context -- Map 1. Geography of the Adriatic (D. Džino using Google Earth). -- 3. Eastern Adriatic populations in the 1st millennium BC -- 3.1. The Liburni -- 3.2. Other Iron Age Eastern Adriatic indigenous seafaring groups -- 3.3. Greek colonising activities in the eastern Adriatic
3.4. Piracy in the eastern Adriatic? -- 3.5. Conclusion -- Map 2. Distribution of the most important indigenous ethnonyms in the pre-Roman Adriatic and its hinterlands. In white: the ethnonyms not mentioned in the sources related to the Roman conquest (D. Džino using Google Earth). -- Figure 1. Distribution of Iron Age Liburnian hillforts (from Batović 1977). -- Figure 2. The city walls of Varvaria-Bribirska glavica (photo: D. Džino). -- Figure 3. Aerial photo of Nedinium-Nadin (photo: M. Grgurić). -- Map 3. The sites related to the East Adriatic Greeks (D. Džino using Google Earth)
Figure 4. The helmet from the Cape of Jablanac on the island of Cres (from Blečić 2007b, courtesy of the author). -- 4. Archaeological and iconographic evidence in protohistoric eastern Adriatic -- 4.1. Underwater finds -- 4.1.1. Zambratija near Savudrija -- 4.1.2. Pula -- 4.1.3. Caska on the island of Pag -- 4.1.4. Zaton near Nin -- 4.2. Iconography -- 4.2.1. Grieves from the Ilijak burial mound on Glasinac -- 4.2.2. The images of ships from the Daunian Stellae -- 4.2.3. Situla from Nesactium -- 4.2.4. Belt buckle from Prozor -- 4.2.5. Relief from Varvaria (Bribirska glavica)
4.2.6. South Adriatic coinage -- 4.3. Protohistoric archaeological and iconographical sources for eastern Adriatic ships -- Map 4. The sites of shipwrecks (pink), iconographic representation of the ships (yellow), and places where the coins with images of ships were minted (white) (D. Džino using Google Earth). -- Figure 5. The sewn boat of Zambratija (photo: Ph. Groscaux, from Koncani Uhač et al. 2017, courtesy of I. Koncani Uhač. -- Figure 6. Drawing of the sewn boat of Zambratija (drawing: V. Dumas, from Boetto et al. 2017, courtesy of I. Koncani Uhač
Figure 7. The sewn ships of Pula (photo: T. Brajković, from Boetto et al. 2017, courtesy of I. Koncani Uhač). -- Figure 8. Drawing of the sewn ships of Pula (from Boetto et al. 2017, courtesy of I. Koncani Uhač). -- Figure 9. The sewn boat Caska 1 (photo: L. Damelet). -- Figure 10. Drawing of the sewn boat Caska 1 (drawing: V. Dumas, from Boetto, Radić Rossi 2017). -- Figure 11. Remains of the sewn boat Caska 3 (photo: T. Seguin). -- Figure 12. Drawing of the sewn boat Caska 3 (drawing: P. Poveda, from Boetto, Radić Rossi 2017). -- Figure 13. The sewn boat Caska 4 (photo: L. Roux)
Summary 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Figure 14. Drawing of the sewn boat Caska 4 (drawing: V. Dumas)
Subject Boats, Ancient -- Rome
Boats, Ancient -- Greece
Illyrian antiquities.
Underwater archaeology -- Europe
Antiquities
Boats, Ancient
Illyrian antiquities
Underwater archaeology
SUBJECT Libya -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076748
Subject Europe
Greece
Libya
Rome (Empire)
Form Electronic book
Author Dzino, Danijel
Radić Rossi, Irena
ISBN 9781789699166
1789699169