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Grand Congloué shipping route and artifacts (France) - ca. 1954
Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: United States
Materials: 35mm film; cardboard
Site location: France
Measurements: 2" x 2"
HEE-SC-00038
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: color slide
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Place made: United States
Materials: 35mm film; cardboard
Site location: France
Measurements: 2" x 2"
Map (held down at corners with ancient Campanian pottery from the wrecksite) illustrating a hypothetical shipping route of the Grand Congloué ship, carrying an amphora cargo for the Roman wine merchant Marcus Sestius from Delos (Greece) through Campania (Italy) to SE France. (CC)
HEE-SC-00038
