Liburnians and Illyrian Lembs : : Iron Age Ships of the Eastern Adriatic.

• Author: Borsić, Luka.
• TeilnehmendeR: Dzino, Danijel.; Radić Rossi, Irena.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2021.; {copy}2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (226 pages)

This book explores the origins of two types of ancient ship connected with the protohistoric eastern Adriatic area: the 'Liburnian' and the southern Adriatic 'lemb'. An extensive overview of written, iconographic and archaeological evidence questions the existing scholarly assumption that the liburna and lemb were closely related.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents Page -- Abbreviations -- Primary sources -- Modern literature -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Research problems and previous scholarship -- 1.2. Overview of the book -- 1.3. Terminology -- 2. Geographical context -- Map 1. Geography of the Adriatic (D. Džino using Google Earth). -- 3. Eastern Adriatic populations in the 1st millennium BC -- 3.1. The Liburni -- 3.2. Other Iron Age Eastern Adriatic indigenous seafaring groups -- 3.3. Greek colonising activities in the eastern Adriatic -- 3.4. Piracy in the eastern Adriatic? -- 3.5. Conclusion -- Map 2. Distribution of the most important indigenous ethnonyms in the pre-Roman Adriatic and its hinterlands. In white: the ethnonyms not mentioned in the sources related to the Roman conquest (D. Džino using Google Earth). -- Figure 1. Distribution of Iron Age Liburnian hillforts (from Batović 1977). -- Figure 2. The city walls of Varvaria-Bribirska glavica (photo: D. Džino). -- Figure 3. Aerial photo of Nedinium-Nadin (photo: M. Grgurić). -- Map 3. The sites related to the East Adriatic Greeks (D. Džino using Google Earth). -- Figure 4. The helmet from the Cape of Jablanac on the island of Cres (from Blečić 2007b, courtesy of the author). -- 4. Archaeological and iconographic evidence in protohistoric eastern Adriatic -- 4.1. Underwater finds -- 4.1.1. Zambratija near Savudrija -- 4.1.2. Pula -- 4.1.3. Caska on the island of Pag -- 4.1.4. Zaton near Nin -- 4.2. Iconography -- 4.2.1. Grieves from the Ilijak burial mound on Glasinac -- 4.2.2. The images of ships from the Daunian Stellae -- 4.2.3. Situla from Nesactium -- 4.2.4. Belt buckle from Prozor -- 4.2.5. Relief from Varvaria (Bribirska glavica) -- 4.2.6. South Adriatic coinage -- 4.3. Protohistoric archaeological and iconographical sources for eastern Adriatic ships.

Map 4. The sites of shipwrecks (pink), iconographic representation of the ships (yellow), and places where the coins with images of ships were minted (white) (D. Džino using Google Earth). -- Figure 5. The sewn boat of Zambratija (photo: Ph. Groscaux, from Koncani Uhač et al. 2017, courtesy of I. Koncani Uhač. -- Figure 6. Drawing of the sewn boat of Zambratija (drawing: V. Dumas, from Boetto et al. 2017, courtesy of I. Koncani Uhač. -- Figure 7. The sewn ships of Pula (photo: T. Brajković, from Boetto et al. 2017, courtesy of I. Koncani Uhač). -- Figure 8. Drawing of the sewn ships of Pula (from Boetto et al. 2017, courtesy of I. Koncani Uhač). -- Figure 9. The sewn boat Caska 1 (photo: L. Damelet). -- Figure 10. Drawing of the sewn boat Caska 1 (drawing: V. Dumas, from Boetto, Radić Rossi 2017). -- Figure 11. Remains of the sewn boat Caska 3 (photo: T. Seguin). -- Figure 12. Drawing of the sewn boat Caska 3 (drawing: P. Poveda, from Boetto, Radić Rossi 2017). -- Figure 13. The sewn boat Caska 4 (photo: L. Roux). -- Figure 14. Drawing of the sewn boat Caska 4 (drawing: V. Dumas). -- Figure 15. The sewn boat Zaton 1 during the course of the 1979 research campaign (photo: Z. Brusić). -- Figure 16. Drawing of the sewn boat Zaton 1 (drawing: Z. Brusić). -- Figure 17. The sewn boat Zaton 2 during the course of the 1987 research campaign (photo: Z. Brusić). -- Figure 18. Drawing of the sewn boat Zaton 2 (drawing: Z. Brusić). -- Figure 19. The sewn boat Zaton 3 during the course of the 2019 research campaign (photo: D. Romanović). -- Figure 20. Drawings of the grieves from Glasinac/Ilijak (drawing: H. Volfart, from Benac, Čović 1957). -- Figure 21. The present state of the grieves from Glasinac/Ilijak (photo: A. Pravidur, courtesy of Zemaljski Muzej Bosne i Hercegovine, Sarajevo).

Figure 22. Drawings of the ships on the grieves from Glasinac/Ilijak (drawing: S. Kudra, from Čović 1976) -- Figure 23. The Novillara Stele (courtesy of L. Braccesi). -- Figure 24. Reconstruction of the situla of Nesactium (from Mihovilić 1996). -- Figure 25. The ship image on the situla of Nesactium (from Mihovilić 1996). -- Figure 26. The belt buckle from Prozor (photo: D. Doračić, courtesy of the Archaeological Museum of Zagreb). -- Figure 27. The belt buckle from Prozor (drawing: K. Rončević, courtesy of the Archaeological Museum of Zagreb). -- Figure 28. The relief from Varvaria-Bribirska glavica (photo: Z. A. Alajbeg, courtesy of Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments). -- Figure 29. Coins of the Daorsi with images of ships (from Dragičević 2016). -- Figure 30. Coins of the Daorsi with images of ships (from Kozličić 1993). -- Figure 31a-b. Coin of king Gentius, with a representation of a ship (photo: Z. A. Alajbeg, courtesy of the Archaeological Museum of Split). -- Figure 32. Coins from south-Illyrian mints (from Kozličić 1981). -- Figure 33. The Moken kabang (after J. Ivanoff, M. Bountry, http://www.lampipark.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Moken-Sea-gypsies.pdf last accessed 9/7/2020). -- Figure 34. A Moken man builds a miniature kabang (from Hinshiranan 2001). -- Fig. 35. A representation of a liburna from the 16th-century manuscript of De rebus bellicis. -- 5. Written sources on lembs and Liburnians from the 4th c. BC to Late Antiquity -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Lemb -- 5.2.1. Ancient Greek sources -- 5.2.2. Latin sources -- 5.3. Liburnian -- 5.3.1. Ancient Greek sources -- 5.3.2. Latin sources -- 6. Discussion -- 6.1. Lemb -- 6.2. Liburnian -- 6.3. Etymology -- 6.4. Overview of usage of the terms lembos and liburnica in ancient sources from the 4th century BC until Late Antiquity -- 6.5. Lemb and liburnian: the same ship?.

6.6. Conclusion -- Table 1: Lemb in Greek and Roman written sources (L. Boršić) -- Table 2: Liburnian in Greek and Roman written sources (L. Boršić) -- Bibliography -- Ancient authors not listed in Chapter 5 -- Modern sources -- Back cover.