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Item Number: 120714
Title: The Antikythera Shipwreck : The Ship - The Treasures - The Mechanism
Author: Kaltsas, Nikolaos ; Elena Vlachogianni ; Polyxeni Bouyia
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9789603860310
Description: Athens: National Archaeological Museum, 2012. 28cm., pbk., 303pp. with numerous color plates. English text. Exhibition catalogue. Contents: The 1900-1901 investigations - The 1976 investigations - The ship - The life on board - The human skeletal remains - The Cargo: Sculpture - Small metal objects and utensils - Glassware - Golden jewels and silver vases - Pottery (lagynoi, lamps, red-slipped tableware, black-glazed tableware, jugs, cups, filter jugs, olpai, unguentaria - transport amphorae) - Coins. The Mechanism: History and study - Archaeometric research - Old and new fragments of the mechanism and inscriptions - Prerequisites for the Antikythera mechanism to be produced in the 2nd ce. B.C. - Functions and models of the Antikythera mechanism. The Era. Epilogue: Maritime commerce and luxury in the age of Cicero.

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