Ora Maritima

   

Periplus

Acrylic paint on canvas
(76cm x 76cm)

 
         
   

Massaliote

Acrylic paint on canvas
(76cm x 76cm)

 

Ora Maritima ('Sea Coasts') – a poem by the 4th Century AD Latin writer Avienus (Rufus Festus) based on the lost 6th Century BC Massaliote Periplus (a manuscript document listing the order of ports along the coast and distances between them) which described Phoenician traders' sea routes in their journeys around Iron-Age Europe to Britain and Ireland.

 

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