Ancient Roman naumachia with reenactment of famous sea battle in an ampitheatre between naval fleets of condemned prisoners 1. Galley with single row of oars 2, and bireme warship with two rows of oars 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Hoessel from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1802.

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