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Top image: The boat’s well-preserved timbers had been lying only 7 meters underwater and 1.5 meters under the sediment. Source: Christoph Gerigk ©Franck Goddio/ Hilti Foundation

A flat-bow cabin boat by a sunken temple

Eastern Harbour, Alexandria. the early 1st century AD. Greece and Rome. Shipwrecks. Debated. Free

The page does not show that a king or queen owned this boat.

Debated. A cabin boat lay by a sunken temple in Alexandria.

In the Eastern Harbour, the boat was about 50 metres from the sunken Temple of Isis, on the old island of Antirhodos. It dates to the early 1st century AD and is 35 metres long. The bow is flat, the stern is round, and a large cabin stands in the middle, a shape made for shallow water. The wood was about 7 metres underwater. Greek writing on the central beam has not been read yet. A researcher said the shape matches cabin boats that an old writer described.

Archaeologists are still not sure if this boat joined the festival of the goddess Isis.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/alexandria-divers-uncover-2000-year-old-royal-pleasure-boat-00102369