Nautical Archaeology at Marburg

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The Marburg students known as the "Three Musketeers" and their professor. "Saber Ceremony," at sea near Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, September 2013 on the Marburg Nautical Archaeology Survey.

Day 2: Marburg Survey in Saudi Arabia Surveying continues apace! Investigations at sites located by our survey in 2012 and a training and integration program for our Saudi colleagues are highlights of the second day. Kudos to my team members from Germany, Gerd Knepel, Dr. Rupert Brandmeier,…

The Marburg Survey in Saudi Arabia, 2013: Jeddah This year our survey in Saudi Arabia concentrates on the approaches to Jeddah. The founding of this important harbor city is in dispute- some sources put it as early as the 7th century, and others in the 10th. Perhaps locating … Continue reading →

Here is the contents list of the forthcoming volume of our symposium at Marburg:

On Sea and Ocean: New Research in Phoenician Seafaring

Contents

Foreword: Ralph K. Pedersen

Selma Abdelhamid, Phoenician Shipwrecks of the 8th to the 6th c. BC – Overview and Interim Conclusions

Zaraza Friedman, The Phoenician Hippos Figurehead Preserved Tradition and the Type of Vessels

Lucy Semaan, New Insights into the Iron-Age Timber Trade in Lebanon

Arad Haggai, Phoenician Deepwater Harbours and Levantine Trade in Iron Age II

Alec Tilley, Phoenician Triremes and Boats

Mario Galasso, Testa scolpita in trachite da Porto Conte—Santa Imbenia, Alghero (SS)

Baldassare Giardina-Archemilia, Fari Fenici e Punici: Fonti ed Evidenze Archeologiche

Marcus Hermanns, Frühe Erztransporte zwischen der Iberischen Halbinsel und Ibiza

Maria Luisa Pinheiro Blot, Ancient environmental contexts and Phoenician maritime shelters in the southeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula: Portugal

Eleftheria Pappa, Who’s the Phoenician on the Atlantic? Disentangling seafaring from colonization in Portugal and Morocco.

These are some photographs of Marburg's survey.

I have just returned from Baghdad where I attended the Third International Translation Conference. I presented a paper on Gilgamesh.

New publication: “Emerging Maritime Paradigms for the Bronze Age in Lebanon.” Skyllis 12.1(2013): 5-10. http://www.deguwa.org/?id=11

DEGUWA - SKYLLIS - Zeitschrift für Unterwasserarchäologie Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Unterwasserarchäologie |

17-19 March: Red Sea Conference VI at Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.

I have finished grading the exams for my lecture class "Archaeology of the Red Sea" and I am happy to say everyone passed and most did exceptionally well. I am proud of my students!

Lectures in the class included:
Early Egyptian Seafaring
How the Red Sea was viewed in Antiquity
Phoenicians and Israelites
South Arabia, Bronze Age and the Ptolemaic Period
The Monsoons
The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
Red Sea Navigation
Leuce Come
Myos Hormos
Berenike in the Ptolemaic and Roman Eras
Archaeology and Shipwrecks of the Red Sea

It was a fun course to teach!

The Nautical Archaeology courses at Marburg consist of lectures, seminars, and main seminars. They are diverse but within the geographical and temporal parameters of the Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures. The courses include:

Introduction to Marine Archaeology
Harbors in Antiquity
Trade and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean
War at Sea in Antiquity
Archaeology of the Red Sea
Greek Colonization
Romans at Sea
Nautical Archaeology of the Ancient Near East
Byzantine Seafaring
Inland Water Transport in the Imperium Romanum
Shipwrecks in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology
Ship Construction in Antiquity
Preclassical Seafaring
Seafaring in Antiquity

I have been tallying things up and I find that nearly 400 students have enrolled in the nautical archaeology courses at Marburg!