- The Museum fur Antike Schiffahrt (Museum of Ancient Shipping) is located in Mainz, Germany.
- It contains reconstructions of Roman Galleys found buried under the riverbank of the Rhine..
Vessels on Display
- Between 1981-1982, five Roman military ships and two Roman cargo vessels were found buried in the river mud during a building excavation.
- The Museum has on display a reconstruction of a Navis Lusoria, a 30 oared naval galley, and of a cargo galley.
- The museum also contains artefacts relating to the sailors of the Roman navy in Germany.
Mainz Roman Naval Base
- Mainz was a base for the Classis Germanica, the Roman navy in Germany.
- 40 Lusoriae was the size of the fleet based at Mainz, under the Emperor Julian (361-363 CE), according to Ammianus Marcellinus (Roman Antiquities, Book XVIII, chap 2, line 12).
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Mainz Roman Ship Museum