{"id":314,"date":"2012-07-03T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T09:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/?p=314"},"modified":"2012-07-03T09:53:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T09:53:52","slug":"phoenician-slipways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/phoenician-slipways\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenician slipways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lebanese Ministry of Culture and the maritime &#8216;experts&#8217; hired by Venus real estate and the Ministry of Culture argued the 4 meter wide slipways found on plot 1398 (the phoenician port) could never have fit a boat. Maybe they were thinking of the Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>A basic online research produced the following Phoenician boat replica, with its 1\/10 ratio of width versus length (meaning a 3 meter width would result in a 30 meter boat):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Phoenician-Boat-Design-300x200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315\" title=\"Phoenician-Boat-Design-300x200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Phoenician-Boat-Design-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>based on the following <a title=\"discovering the ship\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenicia.org.uk\/discovering-theship.htm\">site<\/a>, the average Phoenician ship is 20 meters in length.<\/p>\n<p>this is supported by the following illustration (if you can use the men inside to give you an idea of the ship&#8217;s proportions):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/phoenician-ship-illustration1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-317\" title=\"phoenician ship illustration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/phoenician-ship-illustration1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/phoenician-ship-illustration1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/phoenician-ship-illustration1-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Further, and based on the following picture of an actual Phoenician boat docked in Byblos, and using the Range Rover in the picture as a visual aid for proportion (such an SUV is 4.5 meter long), we can deduce that Phoenician boat never exceeded a 4 meter width and could very well have been hauled into a 4 meter slipway:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/maiden_voyage_phoenician_boat_byblos.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-318\" title=\"phoenician_boat_byblos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/maiden_voyage_phoenician_boat_byblos.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/maiden_voyage_phoenician_boat_byblos.gif 440w, https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/maiden_voyage_phoenician_boat_byblos-300x224.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, our debate is not at all whether the destroyed site on plot 1398 is or is not a port.<\/p>\n<p>How can &#8216;experts&#8217;, &#8216;archeologists&#8217; and &#8216;historians&#8217; stand behind the building over such a unique and intriguing structure dating back millenia, is a mystery to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lebanese Ministry of Culture and the maritime &#8216;experts&#8217; hired by Venus real estate and the Ministry of Culture argued the 4 meter wide slipways found on plot 1398 (the phoenician port) could never have fit a boat. Maybe they were thinking of the Titanic. A basic online research produced the following Phoenician boat replica, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/phoenician-slipways\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phoenician slipways&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.protect-lebaneseheritage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}