Download or read book Ship Iconography in Mosaics written by Zaraza Friedman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depictions of ships are not unsuprisingly reasonably common in the Roman mosaics of the Mediterranean. Here Zaraza Friedman analyses some of the most important examples, asking what they can tell us about ancient ship construction, rigging, and sailing techniques, and compares the results with the evidence available from the archaeological record.