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Penteconter
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Pen´te`con`ter
n.1.(Gr. Antiq.) A Grecian vessel with fifty oars.
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Getting Greek bodies to Pithekoussai in these numbers will have demanded a large number of ship journeys (we can hardly think of more than 50 passengers per pentekonter (Humphreys 1978: 166-8 and Snodgrass 1983: 16-17)): maintaining them profitably will have demanded more still.
Pots, trade and the archaic Greek economy by Osborne, Robin / Antiquity
 
 
 
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