Naval Warfare in the Third Century BC: Rams, Warships, and Officials

8 April 2013

9.45        Registration and Welcome

10.00     Sebastiano Tusa (Soprintendenza del Mare, Regione Siciliana)

                The Battle of the Egadi Islands: The Site and the Battle

10.30     William Murray (University of South Florida)

                Observations on the Ship Class of the Egadi 1-7 Rams

11-11.15               coffee                  

11.15     Jonathan Prag (Merton College, Oxford)

                The Latin Inscriptions

11.45     Tommaso Gnoli (University of Bologna)

The Rams from the Egadi Mirroring Petronius and John Lydus

12.15     Philip Schmitz (University of Eastern Michigan)

                Egadi 3 Ram Inscription: Punic Text and Translation

12.30     Andrew Burnett (British Museum)

                Coins, Prows, and Victories

12.45     Discussion          

1.15-2.00              Lunch

2.00        Jeff Royal (RPM Nautical Foundation)

                Ram Morphology and Warship Construction:  An Archaeological Analysis

2.30        Fred Hocker (Vasa Museum)

                Shells, Skeletons, and Things in between: Ship Structure in Ram-equipped Warships

3.00        Boris Rankov (Royal Holloway University of London)

                The Egadi Rams: Triremes, Quadriremes or Quinqueremes?

3.30-3.45              Coffee

3.45        Discussion

5.30        Reception

The colloquium is made possible through the finanicial support of the Craven Fund of the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford; the Oxford Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents; and Merton College, Oxford.