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 assump...

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.