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To: buffaloguy

Wiki has a pic of how the amphoras were secured on a ship, which is too big for me to want to embed here:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Amphorae_stacking.jpg

44 posted on 06/01/2015 3:17:14 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)

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To: PapaBear3625; SunkenCiv

Thanks for the link. This arrangement could well be the one I saw in a photo long ago, albeit underwater as murky as my memory, and silted over quite a bit.

53 posted on 06/02/2015 2:14:07 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)

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