HISTIA: NAVAL HISTORY AND TEXTILE ARCHAEOLOGY. INVESTIGATING THE SAILS OF THE ANCIENT RHODIAN NAVY

Authors

  • Manolis I. STEFANAKIS University of the Aegean
  • Stella SPANTIDAKI ARTEX Hellenic Centre for Research and Conservation of Archaeological Textiles
  • Ioannis MPARDANIS University of the Aegean

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14795/j.v9i1.708

Keywords:

Rhodian navy, sails, textile archaeology, naval history

Abstract

The paper discusses the methodology, some preliminary results and scientific problems of the HISTIA research project studying the production, maintenance, and administration of a neglected area of research, namely the sails, rope and any textile equipment needed for the military ships of Rhodes, mainly based on similar studies carried out for the Athenian navy, as well as research on the naval power of Rhodes. By focusing on this previously unstudied field of naval studies, this project, not only aims at breaching a significant research gap, but also establishes a new field of textile archaeology that studies textiles intended for the ships.

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2022-04-30

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HISTIA: NAVAL HISTORY AND TEXTILE ARCHAEOLOGY. INVESTIGATING THE SAILS OF THE ANCIENT RHODIAN NAVY. (2022). JOURNAL OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.14795/j.v9i1.708

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