Model of a Roman merchant ship
- Made:
- 1934-1935 in Italy, Lazio, Ostia Antica, Roma, Tiber, Europe and High Salvington
- maker:
- Alfred Charles Jackson
Rigged model, scale 1:60, of a Roman merchant ship (151-250 AD), with sails, swan stern ornament and one figure, in glazed case (see Note), by Alfred Charles Jackson, High Salvington, Worthing, West Sussex, England, 1934-1935. This model was based on a drawing of a Roman sailing ship of the 2nd century AD, prepared in the Science Museum by the use of contemporary reliefs, two from the mouth of the Tiber and two from the Syrian Coast. Ships such as this brought corn to Rome from the coast of Egypt and the Levant.
Conjectural, whole, rigged model of a Roman Merchant ship. C. 200 AD. Scale 1:60. Aspects of this model are based on contemporary reliefs found at Porto and Ostia, near the mouth of the Tiber, and at Tarsus and Sydon, on the eastern Mediterranean coast
Details
- Category:
- Water Transport
- Object Number:
- 1943-194
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified), cotton (fibre), cotton (textile), metal (unknown) and paint
- Measurements:
-
overall: 370 mm x 500 mm x 260 mm, 1.25kg
- type:
- sailing ship and merchant vessel
- credit:
- Executors of Alderman A.C. Jackson