Drawing of Ptolemy IV's Thalamegos, by Nicolaes Witsen, 1671.
Thalamegos (plural: Thalamegoi) was a type of houseboat, yacht, or barge mainly found in the Nile river, Egypt.[1][2] They are used as freight carriers and ferry. The most famous and largest thalamegos is a huge twin-hulled catamaran, a two-story Nile river palace barge that was commissioned by Hellenistic king Ptolemy IV Philopator for himself and his wife Arsinoe III ca. 200 BCE.[3][4]
Thalamegos (plural: Thalamegoi) was a type of houseboat, yacht, or barge mainly found in the Nile river, Egypt. They are used as freight carriers and ferry...
Suetonius provided considerable details about the voyage, including use of Thalamegos, the pleasure barge constructed by Ptolemy IV, which during his reign...
; Scamardella, A.; Bucci, V. (eds.). "Houseboating in ancient times: thalamegos, lusoriae, cubiculae and the Nemi ships as ancestors of nowadays floating...
Nemi ships Obelisk ships Roman ship of Marausa Syracusia Tessarakonteres Thalamegos Medieval and modern oar-powered ships Cakra Dunia Galera Real Galère Réale...
Nemi ships Obelisk ships Roman ship of Marausa Syracusia Tessarakonteres Thalamegos Medieval and modern oar-powered ships Cakra Dunia Galera Real Galère Réale...
Suetonius provided considerable details about the voyage, including use of a Thalamegos pleasure barge. First constructed during the reign of Ptolemy IV, it measured...
Tongiaki Va'a-tele Vaka katea Vinta Wa Yathra doni Tessarakonteres and Thalamegos (3rd century BC) Simon & Jude or Invention I (1662) Invention II (1662)...
items in the tomb of Tutankhamun. The most famous Egyptian barge, the Thalamegos, is that used by Cleopatra VII of Ptolemaic Egypt when she arrived in...
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