{"content":"((:navis))","bibliography":"Bagnall, R. S. et al., Graffiti from the Basilica in the Agora of Smyrna (2016): 193.<br/>                Pfuhl, E. and H. Möbius. 1977. Die ostgriechischen Grabreliefs. Mainz am Rhein, vol. 2, no. 1184, p. 291.<br/>                Pomey, P. 2006. “Les graffiti navals de l’agora. Etude preliminaire.” Anatolia Antiqua 14: 334–5, figs. 25–27.","apparatus":"","photos":[],"sourceFindSpot":"Basilica of the Agora of Smyrna, Izmir, Turkey","principleContributors":"Roger S. Bagnall","lastRevision":"2016-10-03","editor":"Roger S. Bagnall","commentary":"The ships in this bay have been previously published as Bay 15-T26 A, B, C in Pomey 2006: 334–5, figs. 25–27. \nDipinto of a ship, sailing on port tack, without any indications of mast, yard, sails, or oars. A thick black streak outlines a flat keel, a rounded stern, and a sharply oblique prow. Neither the ἄφλαστον nor the στόλος is clearly defined. On the hull, a second line runs parallel to the gunwale. It can be identified as the upper part of the bulwark, suggesting the presence of a deck that extends to the end of the stern, where four short lines define a very schematic aplustre. From the side of the stern, a triangular element tied to the ship by a rope is identified by Pomey as a stone anchor. Very faded traces of an earlier dipinto are visible below and around this ship: the extant lines suggest that it could have depicted a larger ship largely obliterated by the later, and smaller, vessel. \nThe overall shape of the vessel is comparable to a similar one on a gravestone, said to come from Ankara, dated to the second century CE. See Pfuhl and Möbius 1977: vol. 2, no. 1184, p. 291.","caption":"Drawing of a boat","writingStyleInEnglish":"charcoal","property":{"englishPropertyName":"Basilica","italianPropertyName":"Basilica","insula":{"shortName":"Agora","fullName":"Agora","city":{"name":"Smyrna","pleiadesId":"550771"}},"propertyTypes":[{"name":"Basilica","description":""}],"numberOfGraffiti":325,"uri":"Smyrna/Agora/1","propertyName":"Basilica","propertyNumber":"1"},"figuralInfo":{"drawingTags":[{"name":"Boats","description":"drawings of boats"}],"descriptionInLatin":"((:navis))","descriptionInEnglish":"boat"},"trismegistosNumber":null,"uri":"https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-SMYD00152","agpId":"AGP-SMYD00152","citation":"AGP-SMYD00152, <i>The Ancient Graffiti Project</i>, &lt;https://ancientgraffiti.org/Graffiti/graffito/AGP-SMYD00152&gt; [accessed: 29 Apr 2026]","graffitoHeight":"25","graffitoLength":"75","pleiadesId":"550771","locationMetadataLink":"properties/Smyrna/Agora/1"}