Liburnians and Illyrian lembs [electronic resource] : Iron Age ships of the eastern Adriatic.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface ; 1. Introduction ; Research problems and previous scholarship ; Overview of the book ; Terminology ; 2. Geographical context ; 3. Eastern Adriatic populations in the 1st millennium BC ; The Liburni ; Other Iron Age Eastern Adriatic indigenous seafaring groups ; Greek colonising activities in the eastern Adriatic ; Piracy in the eastern Adriatic? ; Conclusion ; 4. Archaeological and iconographic evidence in protohistoric eastern Adriatic ; Underwater finds ; Iconography ; Protohistoric archaeological and iconographical sources for eastern Adriatic ships ; 5. Written Sources on Lembs And Liburnians from the 4th c. BC to Late Antiquity ; Introduction ; Lemb ; Liburnian ; 6. Discussion ; Lemb ; Liburnian ; Etymology ; Overview of usage of the terms lemb and liburnian in ancient sources from the 4th century BC until Late Antiquity ; Lemb and liburnian: the same ship? ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Ancient authors not listed in Chapter 5 ; Modern sources.

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