madrague de giens造句

• The cargo found amongst the wreck site indicates that the wreck at Madrague de Giens belongs to a large Roman merchant vessel.
• The ship of Madrague de Giens was only carrying three layers of amphorae due to the fact that it was also carrying a large load of ceramics, which was placed on top of the amphorae.
• The wreck lies at around 18 to 20 metres depth off the coast of the small fishing port of La Madrague de Giens on the Giens peninsula, east of Toulon, on the southern Mediterranean coast of France.
• The stern was abandoned in favour of the bow as what had already been uncovered suggested that parallels might possibly be made between the Madrague de Giens wreck and classical iconography and the archaeologists wished to explore this further.
• Unbeknownst to the team of diver-archaeologists who first began documenting the wreck, the Madrague de Giens vessel would soon be revealed as one of the " largest ancient ships whose remains have ever been found under the sea ".
• The dimensions of Madrague de Giens portray a tall two-masted merchant ship with a displacement of 520 tons implying a total cargo weight of 400 tons, one of the two or three largest ancient ships to be found underwater.
• The vessel wrecked at Madrague de Giens measured around 40 metres in length;  showed a sharp bottom with  wine glass section and a prominent keel creating a large leeboard; displayed extended raking of the stem and stern; and had two masts.
• Discovered by divers from the French Navy Diving School in 1967, the archaeological investigations of the Roman wreck at "'Madrague de Giens "'constituted the first large scale,  truly scientific underwater excavation [ s ] carried out in France.
• The wreck at Madrague de Giens is significant not only because it is one of the largest Roman vessels ever discovered, or that its excavation was the first  truly scientific underwater excavation carried out in France, but because it also reveals important information about Roman art.
• In the summer of 1972 a team of maritime archaeologists of the Archaeological Institute, run jointly in Aix-en-Provence ( France ) by the University of Provence and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( National Centre for Scientific Research or CNRS ) began what was planned as three years of work on the recently discovered Roman wreck at Madrague de Giens.