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[2019] Ancient shipwrecks discovered off Greek island of Levitha [between Amorgos and Leros]
Archaeology News Network (Blogspot) ^
| August 06, 2019
| Source: Protothema
Posted on 04/21/2020 3:43:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: Rurudyne
Clintonista ethics... Talk about an oxymoron...
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04/21/2020 4:45:26 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: blogOps
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04/21/2020 4:46:00 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: moovova
Usually there was one on the vessel -- all the coin, bits of gold and silver, anything that would come in handy as universal exchange if they reached a port where their wares weren't in demand.
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04/21/2020 4:47:54 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: dp0622
whoa, you're freakin' me out... ;^)
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04/21/2020 4:48:54 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Lol
Yeah it might be time for me to get out of the house a little more :)
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04/21/2020 4:55:18 PM PDT
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dp0622
(Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
To: dp0622
“We are but a moment in time”
In the scale of universal time, we’re less than a butterfly’s fart in the wind.
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04/21/2020 5:16:46 PM PDT
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Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: carriage_hill
yeah you’re right.
It’s all too crazy to absorb.
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04/21/2020 5:34:42 PM PDT
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dp0622
(Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
To: SunkenCiv
I don't know if we can consider Herodotus an authority on this subject. There are some placenames in Asia Minor that seem to be of similar origin, and part of that was the area inhabited in his time by Carians.
Besides the -nth- place names (and loanwords like plinthos for brick and erebinthos for garbanzo bean) there are place names in -ss- or -tt- all over the Aegean area: Larissa, Parnassos, Hymettos, Knossos, Halikarnassos (Herodotus' birthplace), Tylissos, etc. Plus loanwords like thalassa (or thalatta) for sea, glossa (glotta) for tongue, nesos for island, melissa for bee, etc.
On Rhodes there is the place name Lindos. The -nd- form seems to be a variation of -nth-.
To: Verginius Rufus
The observation about the -nth place names isn't from Herodotus, it's modern. -nth place names are found as far afield as the north end of the Adriatic and the shores of the Tyrrhenian. As you said, the H-man grew up in a Carian city, probably spoke Carian or some Carian, probably had Carian relatives -- and of course, was a couple thousand years closer to the problem than we are..
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04/21/2020 5:56:54 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
There is Saguntum in Spain (the city sacked by Hannibal which led to the Roman declaration of war against Carthage in 218 B.C.), but I don't know if it has any connection with the -nth- or -nd- names found further east.
In the Adriatic the island of Issa was colonized by the Greeks (modern Vis). Two important naval battles took place near that island in the 19th century.
To: Verginius Rufus
It's not unheard of to find a modern wreck stacked on an older wreck, which is on a still older wreck, with the bottom-most being ancient.
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04/21/2020 7:22:01 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I just watched an Amazon Prime series you might be interested in: Storm Over Europe - The Wandering Tribes. It chronicles all the European Migrations out of Northern Europe from about 150 BC to 800 AD; and describes how Europe became Europe. That part of history has always been a mystery to me, but now I know. Great series, four episodes.
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04/21/2020 7:39:38 PM PDT
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11th_VA
(May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
To: 11th_VA
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
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04/21/2020 9:26:11 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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