Shipsheds of the Ancient Mediterranean

David Blackman has been carrying out and publishing research on ancient harbours for over forty years; as a postgraduate student he provided an analysis of the then known remains of ancient shipsheds (published in 1968 in Morrison and Williams' Greek Oared Ships), which were one key factor in the design of the Olympias trireme reconstruction. The present book is a culmination of that work. In 1997 he became Director of the British School at Athens, and has been based in Oxford since 2002. Boris Rankov is Professor of Ancient History at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 1987 he recruited the first trials crew of 170 rowers to operate the Olympias trireme reconstruction, and was one of the rowing masters on the ship in 1988, 1990 and 1992. In 1996, he succeeded John Morrison as Chairman of the Trireme Trust, and subsequently co-authored the second edition of The Athenian Trireme (Cambridge, 2000). Alongside work on the Roman army and its epigraphy, ancient oared ships have remained a focus of his research and publication, including Trireme Olympias: The Final Report (2012) and the present volume. Kalliopi Baika has a Ph.D. from the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has worked at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been Visiting Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology at the University of the Peloponnese and is now a maritime archaeologist at the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities in the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. She specialises in Greek harbour archaeology and coastal geoarchaeology in the Aegean and Mediterranean. Henrik Gerding has a Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History from Lunds Universitet, Sweden. He has worked at Royal Holloway, University of London and Uppsala University and is now Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at Lunds Universitet. His research has been mainly on ancient architecture, and his published works include a monograph on the tomb of Caecilia Metella outside Rome. Jari Pakkanen is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London and has been a Co-Director of the Project. He specialises in Greek architecture, and from summer 2013 is the Director of the Finnish Institute at Athens.

1. Introduction David Blackman and Boris Rankov; 2. Research and investigation of ancient shipsheds David Blackman; 3. Classical and Hellenistic sheds David Blackman; 4. Roman shipsheds Boris Rankov; 5. The economy of shipshed complexes: Zea, a case study Jari Pakkanen; 6. Ships and shipsheds Boris Rankov; 7. Slipping and launching Boris Rankov; 8. Ramps and substructures David Blackman; 9. Roofs and superstructures Henrik Gerding; 10. The topography of shipshed complexes and naval dockyards Kalliopi Baika; 11. The fortification of shipsheds and naval arsenals Kalliopi Baika; 12. Small-scale and rock-cut naval bases Kalliopi Baika; 13. Conclusions: not just garages David Blackman and Boris Rankov; Catalogue of shipsheds and miscellanea Kalliopi Baika, David Blackman, Henrik Gerding, Judith McKenzie and Boris Rankov.