File:Periplus 212 Indian Boat.png

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English: A photograph of an Indian boat, used to illustrate Pliny's mention of their "doubled hulls". They are symmetrical and able to be adjusted to face either fore or aft without turning the boat itself in the narrow channels of the southern Indian inlets.
Date
Source The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea.
Author AnonymousUnknown author

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An Indian boat, c. 1912

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