Carlo Beltrame
In 1988, in the ancient Anfora channel of Aquileia,
two 10 meter-long strakes, a section of a third one and an unconnected
piece of frame were discovered. The strakes still have the remains
of a caulking material roll (of vegetable fibre) and of rope along
the seams. The central timber has, at one end, an S-scarf and,
at the other, a ligatured repair.
The find is conserved at the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia, in a tank with spring water and it has not be, till now, objet of a conservative treatment.
The only possible datation - merely indicative - has been offered
by the material lying on the bottom of the channel and it is included
between the end of the Repubblica and the II century A.D.