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Re: Astrolabe: Shipwreck find 'earliest navigation tool'
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2017 Oct 25, 03:20 -0700
From: Geoffrey Kolbe
Date: 2017 Oct 25, 03:20 -0700
Stephen N.G. Davies wrote:
".... so if da Game (or other early Portuguese arrival), then it should be easy to tell."
Well it has the Portuguese royal coat of arms embossed on it, so -
" ....given a find in Oman, I’d suppose the greater probability would that this is more likely to have been a local product."
probably not.
But underwater archaeology is turning up wrecks all over the place in the Med and particularly in the Black Sea where they seem to be particularly well preserved. So, a pre BCE astrolabe turning up looks probable rather than possible, which would be quite exciting.
Geoffrey Kolbe
