Tessarakonteres
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Tessarakonteres, or simply "forty", was a very large catamaran galley reportedly built in the Hellenistic period by Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt. It was described by a number of ancient sources, inc
The tessarakonteres, 1858 illustration
Ptolemy IV, who ordered the ship built
Speculative illustration of the Tessarakonteres with catamaran hulls, as Casson suggests
Ptolemy IV Philopator
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Ptolemy IV Philopator was the fourth pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt from 221 to 204 BC.
Tessarakonteres
…Tessarakonteres (Greek: τεσσαρακοντήρης, "forty-rowed"), or simply "forty", was a very large catamaran galley reportedly built in the Hellenistic period by Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt. It was described by a number of ancient sources, including a lost work by Callixenus of Rhodes and surviving texts by Athenaeus and Plutarch…
Bronze bust of the 1st century BC, possibly depicting Queen Arsinoe III
Ptolemy IV and wife Arsinoe III; relief in the Temple of Hathor at Deir el-Medina
Relief depicting Ptolemy IV making an offering to Montu at Deir el-Medina