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The Marsala Ship is the earliest warship known from archeological evidence.〔 Anzovin, p. 275 item 4240 ''The first warship known from archeological evidence is the Marsala Ship, a wreck discovered in 1969 in the harbor of Marsala in western Sicily, Italy.''〕 It is a wreck discovered in 1969 in an area called ''Punta Scario'' in the harbor of Marsala in western Sicily, Italy, near the Aegadian Islands.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= The Marsala Punic Warship by Honor Frost )〕 The Marsala Ship's "nationality" was painted on the sides with letters by its Punic builders from Carthage. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= Saudi Aramco World magazine article -The Punic Warship )〕 ==Ship== Its architecture and contents show that it was not a merchant cargo ship. A merchant cargo ship made regular journeys and required large containers for storing water. It also needed grinders and mortars for dried food. It would normally carry large pots for communal cooking. It would also have fish-hooks for catching available fresh fish.〔 The Marsala Ship had only small cups and bowls for individual servings. Its wine, water, and other liquids were carried in amphorae of miscellaneous shapes. Food remains were fresh and perishable, such as various kinds of butchered meat. Bones of deer, horses, oxen, sheep, goats and pigs were all found. All this indicated it was intended as a warship and not as a merchant cargo vessel. The presence of ballast stones and lack of merchant cargo definitely indicate that it was a warship, probably used for scouting purposes or for ramming smaller boats. The remains of marijuana stems — which may have been chewed by the oarsmen — were also found in the wreck.〔 It is believed to have been one of the Liburnian "long ships", an oared vessel with 17 sweeps per side used by ancient Carthage in the Battle of the Aegates Islands (241 BC).〔 This was the last battle of the First Punic War between Carthage and the Roman Republic. Carbon-14 tests on timbers and other materials determined a date of 235 BC.〔 The vessel was determined to be approximately 115 feet (35 meters) long and 15.7 feet (4.8 meters) wide.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marsala Ship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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