Naval Warfare in the Third Century BC: Rams, Warships, and Officials
8 April 2013
9.45 Registration and Welcome
10.00 Sebastiano Tusa (Soprintendenza del Mare, Regione Siciliana)
The Battle of the Egadi Islands: The Site and the Battle
10.30 William Murray (University of South Florida)
Observations on the Ship Class of the Egadi 1-7 Rams
11-11.15 coffee
11.15 Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford)
The Latin Inscriptions
11.45 Tommaso Gnoli (University of Bologna)
The Rams from the Egadi Mirroring Petronius and John Lydus
12.15 Philip Schmitz (University of Eastern Michigan)
Egadi 3 Ram Inscription: Punic Text and Translation
12.30 Andrew Burnett (British Museum)
Coins, Prows, and Victories
12.45 Discussion
1.15-2.00 Lunch
2.00 Jeff Royal (RPM Nautical Foundation)
Ram Morphology and Warship Construction: An Archaeological Analysis
2.30 Fred Hocker (Vasa Museum)
Shells, Skeletons, and Things in between: Ship Structure in Ram-equipped Warships
3.00 Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway University of London)
The Egadi Rams: Triremes, Quadriremes or Quinqueremes?
3.30-3.45 Coffee
3.45 Discussion
5.30 Reception
The colloquium is made possible through the finanicial support of the Craven Fund of the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford; the Oxford Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents; and Merton College, Oxford.