Wikimedia Commons

File:Model of a penticonter (pentikontoros) at Athens War Museum on 12 April 2019.jpg

(Redirected from File:Model of a penticonter (pentikontoros) at Athens War Museum.jpg)

Original file ‎(5,840 × 3,812 pixels, file size: 3.53 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary edit

Description
English: A Pentikontoros was an ancient Greek ship being used from the archaic until the Hellenistic period both as a merchant and as a warship. It was a flexible vessel with high range of activity. Its driving force was 50 rowers plus a central mast with a square sail. It has been estimated that a pentikontoros was 28-38 metres long and 4-5 metres wide. It could develop a speed up to 9 knots. Source: Museum inscription.
Date
Source Own work
Author George E. Koronaios

Licensing edit

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
Creative Commons CC-Zero This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.
The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the public domain by waiving all of their rights to the work worldwide under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current03:28, 20 April 2019Thumbnail for version as of 03:28, 20 April 20195,840 × 3,812 (3.53 MB)George E. Koronaios (talk | contribs)Slightly cropped version of the previous file for the sake of symmetry.
00:05, 20 April 2019Thumbnail for version as of 00:05, 20 April 20196,001 × 3,987 (3.83 MB)George E. Koronaios (talk | contribs)User created page with UploadWizard

You cannot overwrite this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Model_of_a_penticonter_(pentikontoros)_at_Athens_War_Museum_on_12_April_2019.jpg&oldid=851051619"