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Item # Block/Slab Length
(m)
Table 2 (continued).
Width
(m)
Height
(m)
Volume
(m 3 )
Tons
47 Slab 1.20 1.90 0.35 0.80 2.05
48 Slab 1.20 1.85 0.30 0.67 1.71
49 Slab 1.90 1.25 0.35 0.83 2.13
50 Slab 2.00 1.75 0.35 1.23 3.14
51 Slab 2.75 1.80 0.30 1.49 3.81
52 Slab 1.00 1.00 0.35 0.35 1.35
53 Slab 1.20 1.70 0.30 0.61 1.57
54 Slab 1.95 1.08 0.35 0.74 1.89
TOTAL 348.63
Since these architectural elements of the Punta Scifo B shipwreck rest on a sandy
seafloor, it is possible that wooden hull remains are preserved beneath the heavy blocks.
During the 1987 Aquarius excavation one of the ship’s planks was found, measuring
2.70 m long, 8 cm thick, and with two rows of mortises and tenons. 89 Its description
matches closely the hull fragment found on the nearby Punta Scifo A wreck site. 90
Half of a wooden anchor stock was also found in 1987, lying beneath a broken
tile, a bronze ladle, and protected by marble block 8 and a rock. 91 It is 0.865 m long, ca.
0.110 m wide, and filled with two trapezoidal lead cores, each one measuring 0.28 x
89 Freschi 1987, 3.
90 Lattanzi 1984a, 574-5.
91 Freschi 1987, 47.
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