Thanks Dave! Hopefully I was convincing. I wanted to leave it open to add further information or a different interpretation as well.

If they exist, I’ll find them! Three-bladed waterline rams and ancient warship-inspired monuments at Union Station in DC. Though these are some pretty odd ones…

Thanks for reading it! I might be wrong, I might be right, but I think it’s something worth looking at and exploring further, especially now that we have so much more information about naval rams.

Finally got to visit my sister’s workplace at the NIH! The work they’re doing there is incredibly important, and it was really cool to see some of it firsthand. A great reminder of why effective and continued government funding for research matters so much.

The article reexamines the Isis sgraffito, arguing that we may be looking at a local Cimmerian Bosporan warship rather than a Ptolemaic vessel, with a distinctive regional naval ram design. Another small piece of the ancient naval warfare puzzle!

Rainy day….working in the office on the Syracusan trireme modifications of 413 BCE. I’ll finish this paper (eventually), but today I’m really missing Actium. All this bad weather has me thinking about those rainy/cloudy days spent scanning the monument.

Excited to see my chapter, “Odysseus’ Naval Ram?”, published in Iconography of War in the Ancient Mediterranean World! Many thanks to the editors, Julio C. Ruiz and Marta Nicolás-Muelas. It’s great to see a conference group come together and turn our papers into a published volume!

Already spotting ancient warships in Yale’s architecture! This one is at the entrance to Sterling Memorial Library. Phoenician ship inspired? Straight from the Kouyunjik relief?