Blocks of green "glass" on old wreck site ... any idea?

Dimitris · #1 15-02-11, 21:16

Hi Jerome

Are you sure it was green and not brown ?
A friend of mine have found a similar item in marathon gulf.
It was resin. Resin was to be one of the materials that nations from Asia used for constricring the ships. Greeks were using tar from other materials.

An occasion is that the resin was from the hull of a persian ships that sunk in marathon gulf after the marathon battle. Another occasion is that the resin was merchandise that the ship was carrying.

I will try to find the photos and i will come back.

Dimitris

Jerome Smeets · #2 16-02-11, 03:48

Hi Dimitris,

Yes in this case it's really green (the second picture with the flash shows the accurate color).

Yes, if you have pictures, am interested

Dimitris · #3 16-02-11, 22:48

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Yes in this case it's really green (the second picture with the flash shows the accurate color).

But in the first it seems brown

O.K I found the pictures. Click on for full size

Use google translator and check the bellow links. It describes the usage of the resin for the construction of the ships from 500 BC

http://www.servitoros.gr/education/view.php/12/185/

http://www.livepedia.gr/index.php?ti...BD%CE%B9%CE%BF

P.S marathon Battle took place in 490 BC

BR
Dimitris

Jerome Smeets · #4 17-02-11, 01:27

Beautiful !
Thanks