"Ship Names" Topic

Hello All,

Wondering if anyone out there can point me in the right direction to find out how the Carthaginians named their ships. For that matter also how about the Gauls.

I have the Roman Sea's disks from Eric Hotz and would like to name the various ships at least quasi-correctly. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Ray,

I once did a search on galley names from the greek period and it wasn't that hard to find out the pattren on how possibly ships were named.

Ray,
Here's what I found on naming Greek ships:

Ships were named after:
Goddesses or heroines--Amphitrite
Thetis
Hebe
Galatea
Pandora

Virtues or abstract ideas--Justice
Strength
Virtue
Freedom
Peace

Laudatory epithets--Beloved
Swift
Golden
Lucky

Geographical adjectives--Nemean
Delphian
Delian
Salaminian
If you went with goddesses or heroines, you'd need to use Carthaginian goddesses and heroines, rather than Greek. Virtues and Laudatory epithets have been universally popular through the ages; I'd go with them if you can't find any specific information for Gaul or Carthage. Geographical adjectives seems dubious to me, unless you went with a part of Gaul or Carthage, whose inhabitants were notable warlike.
Grelber

Thanks all,

I found Greek and Roman names without any problem. Their main themes seems to be as mentioned, God's Goddesses, geographical adjectives, virtues etc.

Grelber, I tend to agree with you in regards to the Carthaginians, follow what the Greeks and Romans went with just in Phoenician. It was easier finding out the names of their Gods than finding names for virtues and geographical area's.

Ray

One of my books has a list of known Roman ship names… I think this is from the late Roman period.

E.H.