La embarcación de la jarra romana del río Ulla (Galicia)
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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ISSN: 1130-7625
Year of publication: 2014
Issue: 37
Pages: 93-102
Type: Article
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Abstract
This study offers some iconographic sources to identify the type of boat carved on the belly of a Roman jug, which was found in the bottom of the river Ulla near Pontecesures (Galicia, Spain). Some light may be thrown on the subject by comparison with the boats represented on some Roman mosaics dated in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. The outline of this Ulla boat bears striking resemblance to some boats depicted in those Roman mosaics. Typologically, this Ulla boat resembles a Roman "scapha", that is, a small boat, and it may be assumed that it was carved towards the end of the 3rd centuty AD.