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To: Red Badger

Go even further east and compare the boat to pictures found in the desert east of the Nile.


6 posted on 10/06/2015 7:37:18 AM PDT by I am Richard Brandon
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To: I am Richard Brandon

I noticed the figurehead on the ship had an appearance of a dragon or animal.

According to Wiki:

History
Figurehead Hall at Marinmuseum, Karlskrona Sweden

Although earlier ships had often had some form of bow ornamentation (e.g. the Viking ships of ca. A.D. 800–1100), the general practice was introduced with the galleons of the 16th century, as the figurehead as such could not come to be until ships had an actual stemhead structure on which to place it.[1] The menacing appearance of toothy and bug-eyed figureheads on Viking ships also had the protective function of warding off evil spirits.[2] The Egyptians placed figures of holy birds on the prow while the Phoenicians used horses representing speed. The Ancient Greeks used boars’ heads to symbolise acute vision and ferocity while Roman boats often mounted a carving of a centurion representing valour in battle. In northern Europe, serpents, bulls, dolphins and dragons were customary and by the 13th Century, the swan was used representing grace and mobility.[3]


This would seem to indicate that the ship was from either a Phoenician civilization or a northern European one. The Phoenicians had settlements in Spain. The Vikings just visited...................8^)


7 posted on 10/06/2015 7:49:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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