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Coinage of Tennes, king of Sidon, dated 351/0 BC. Phoenician pentekonter sailing left. Date above (here faint), waves below. King of Persia standing right, holding up lion by lock of mane; Aramaic T’ between.
The penteconter (alt. spelling pentekonter, pentaconter, pentecontor or pentekontor; Greek: πεντηκόντερος, pentēkónteros, "fifty-oared"[1]), plural penteconters, was an ancient Greek galley in use since the archaic period.
In an alternative meaning, the term was also used for a military commander of fifty men in ancient Greece.[2]
of ironclad, heavy gunboats designed for coastal or colonial service Penteconter An ancient warship propelled by 50 oars, 25 on each side Pinisi (or Phinisi)...
a forerunner or early version of a boat type that became known as a penteconter. The boat was built with a variety of wood from around the region of...
maximum beam width of around 10 feet (3 m). It was modified from the penteconter, a ship that had only one set of oars on each side, the bireme having...
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manned with one man per oar. The early trireme was a development of the penteconter, an ancient warship with a single row of 25 oars on each side (i.e.,...
vectoria – passenger ferry second century CE Roman penteconter – the name of the Greek penteconter was not romanized for the Roman version of this ship...
in age by almost 9 million years. The generic name derives from the penteconter, a warship from ancient Greece, and the suffix -pterus, which means "wing"...
Greek triremes typically had crews of about 200 men, and the smaller penteconters were each crewed by 50 oarsmen, yet the total number of personnel involved...
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