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Is there a reconstruction model of that ship?

Salve, Amici.

Here it is:

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MPC send us to the NAVIS website, which I consider the best of the best regarding Classical Navies. As their picture archive is quite extensive, the link is somewhat heavy and the search may be a little difficult.

 

They have the record of two sister Punic military vessels, numbered 56 (Marsala 1, this pic) and 84 (Marsala 2), both of them found on a sand bank near Isola Lunga (ancient Motya) outside that Sicilian city (ancient Lilybaeum), dated from the III Century BC, and with some circumstantial evidence relating them to the naval battle that ended the I Punic War (March 10, DXIII AUC / 241 BC).

Edited by ASCLEPIADES

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Well, they're not as large and bulky as I believed but then again Punic warships were meant to ram and destroy the ship with one blow so it doesen't come as much of a surprise.

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