Английская Википедия:Caligula's Giant Ship

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Caligula's "Giant Ship", also known as the "Round Ship", was a very large barge, the ruins of which were found during the construction of Rome's Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Fiumicino, Italy, in the 1950s.[1] This was previously a Roman port a few kilometres north of Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber River. The ship was dated to Шаблон:Circa using dendrochronological dating methods.

This Roman barge had a length of about Шаблон:Convert and a beam of about Шаблон:Convert. It was probably able to carry 1,300 tons of cargo.[1]

According to Pliny, this or a similar ship was used to transport the obelisk in St. Peter's Square from Egypt on the orders of Emperor Caligula.[2]

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