This second volume concentrates on the finds made during the excavation period and the volume concludes with an overview of what we now know of the nature and function of the ports of Myos Hormos and Quseir al-Qadim and a discussion of outstanding problems which can only be resolved by further work. This port, together with its sister harbour Berenike, articulated Rome’s trade with India and the East. The new work was prompted by the discovery that the site of Quseir al-Qadim was, in all probability, not that of the minor port of Leucos Limen, as had been previously thought, but none other than Myos Hormos. Many tricks of geometry and integrating the results from different software can be used to further the understanding of the missing data.īetween 19 the University of Southampton conducted excavations on the site of Quseir al-Qadim (western shores of the Red Sea), a place that had not been examined since the excavations by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago ended in 1982. The just-submerged analysis is significantly different from the surface analysis. These analyses were used to support sinking analyses in several cases and the problem is significantly different for a wooden vessel than a iron or steel vessel. What do you do when the ship was built far in the past and few or no drawings exist? What if there are a few drawings and references but they conflict on critical details? Will we ever be able to do an adequate weights analysis? This paper describes several such analyses and the detective work and re-engineering that has gone into developing reasonable weights and centers information for these historic vessels. It is an important task that requires attention to detail and hours spent carefully reviewing drawings and manufacturers cut sheets to develop data at the necessary level of detail. Abstract: Weights engineering feeds into hydrostatic trim and stability analysis and hydrodynamic analyses of many sorts.
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