Las naves grabadas de Ampurias. Un testimonio excepcional de embarcaciones romanas en aguas ampuritanas

Abstract

The aim of the work is to analyse in detail the gravures on stucco of four vessels localized in the year 1956 in one of the walls of the perystile on the domus 2B of the Roman town of Ampurias (Girona, Catalunya). The gravures dated around the middle of the first century d.C., representes possibly one navis actuaria, one corbita, a boat without determination and another which my be situated between the pontones, rates, and lintres. The technical study of the vessels renders posible the valuation of its role and the interest of its presence in Ampurias as a singular iconographical document resistible whit all the disposable information about the numerous types of Roman boats wich frequented the rivers ans coats of Catalunya from the Republican procces until, at leats, the Low Empire.