A restudy of the cylindrical amphoras from the seventh-century Yassi Ada shipwreck /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Alfen, Peter G.
Format: Thesis eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] ; 1995.
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Online Access:Link to OAKTrust copy
Description
Summary:626).
amphoras in liters correlate to weight capacities in
amphoras recovered from the 11th c. A.D. shipwreck at Serge
an ordinary merchant vessel, but a ship owned and operated by
Byzantine [], or pounds, for red and white wine. These
complex and controlled metrological system in use for the
correlations demonstrate that, by the 1 lth c., there was a
developed by van Doorninck for his study, this re-examination
F.H. van Doorninck, Jr.'s recent work on the piriform
in use by the 7th c. This restudy of the Yassi Ada cargo also
Liman, Turkey, has shown that the volume capacity of the
of the cylindrical amphoras from the Yassi Ada shipwreck
offers a new interpretation of the shipwreck: that it was not
provides evidence for a somewhat similar metrological system
the Church assisting in the provisionmnent of Byzantine
transportation and marketing of wine. Using the methodology
troops during the final stages of the Persian War (ca. A.D.
Item Description:"Major subject: Anthropology".
Vita.
Physical Description:ix, 91 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.