Who says it was Pirates? True, Pirates had a strangle hold on trade, especially grain trade from Egypt. Securing trade routes was Pompi's role.
Hypothesis: Cartheginians - Phoenicians were beaten in 146. Then the anti pirate actions come into play ... Cohencidence of course ....
The time frame puts it into the period of the Triumvirate, and the games that were played. In other words: it may have been pirates but they may have been acting on behalf of a sponsor ....
This also means in terms of the then Geopolitical reality, there were enough rivaling factions ....
a resource that would benefit who? It came from Pompi's province
a resource that would sink fails to benefit who? And what advantage may that give?
if it came from a mine that is very soon spent (33 metric tons were shipped in a specially designed cargo ship, which costs a lot of money, of course, it presumes an important shipment, but also one figured to have repeat business? Think the Spanish Silver fleet/ Gold Fleets and Captain Piet Hein.
🎵"Piet Hein, zijn naam is klein, zijn daden benne groot, hij heeft gewonnen de Zilveren Vloot …'' 🎵
... is what we learnt to sing in Primary school. So his name is smol, but his deeds were great. LOL we were basically taught to celebrate and white-wash piracy, just as Sir Walter Raleigh has had his name white-washed in history. We are now told the latter was an adventurer, and of course, handsome, and Queen Bess's favorite.
Anyway re: OP:
The piracy/scuppering hypothesis came from the archeology team, given that there appeared to be no storm damage to the shipwreck, nor outcrops of rock that could have foundered the ship. The idea was that maybe pirates were threatening to attack, or had already attacked, and the scuppering was a deliberate act. The resource would have benefitted anyone who captured it, as lead was used for just about everything including vital infrastructure. Of course, when the prize is 33 tons of lead, it is a great prize. Indeed, sovereigns, and Barbarians/Carthage/Phoenicians and perhaps even Pharisees, all the way from the Eastern end (they were very wealthy, and seeking the construction resource for city-building. Perhaps it was a conspiracy to only deprive Rome? All had an interest in supporting piracy of lead shipments.
However, archeologists have great imaginations. It is really part of the job-description. It is Qualitative analysis, necessarily based on artefacts. This is why they talk of painting pictures. Some of the body of study requires questioning. I mean what if they had experienced a freak wave, during a stomache-ache bad-wind event. The cargo would have acted as a direct, driving force aimed at the sea-floor. Perhaps, greed sealed the fate of the ship. I guess the exact dating window (established via the existence of the lead-foundry named on the ingots), led to the piracy, or threat of piracy idea. I believe the crew went down with it. So, that still leads to questions.
So, the ingots weighed 33kg each and the ship carried 33 tons at 33m below the waves. Dr Salvi leads the team of salvagers?
Again, given what this board knows about numerology, there are more questions that require research.
Furthermore, there is Clif-High's prediction of new technologies de-clas. And here we have Quantum computers in the near future? Clearly there is a lot here.
Who says it was Pirates? True, Pirates had a strangle hold on trade, especially grain trade from Egypt. Securing trade routes was Pompi's role.
Hypothesis: Cartheginians - Phoenicians were beaten in 146. Then the anti pirate actions come into play ... Cohencidence of course ....
The time frame puts it into the period of the Triumvirate, and the games that were played. In other words: it may have been pirates but they may have been acting on behalf of a sponsor ....
This also means in terms of the then Geopolitical reality, there were enough rivaling factions ....
One has to note a little side-bar:
... is what we learnt to sing in Primary school. So his name is smol, but his deeds were great. LOL we were basically taught to celebrate and white-wash piracy, just as Sir Walter Raleigh has had his name white-washed in history. We are now told the latter was an adventurer, and of course, handsome, and Queen Bess's favorite.
Anyway re: OP:
The piracy/scuppering hypothesis came from the archeology team, given that there appeared to be no storm damage to the shipwreck, nor outcrops of rock that could have foundered the ship. The idea was that maybe pirates were threatening to attack, or had already attacked, and the scuppering was a deliberate act. The resource would have benefitted anyone who captured it, as lead was used for just about everything including vital infrastructure. Of course, when the prize is 33 tons of lead, it is a great prize. Indeed, sovereigns, and Barbarians/Carthage/Phoenicians and perhaps even Pharisees, all the way from the Eastern end (they were very wealthy, and seeking the construction resource for city-building. Perhaps it was a conspiracy to only deprive Rome? All had an interest in supporting piracy of lead shipments.
However, archeologists have great imaginations. It is really part of the job-description. It is Qualitative analysis, necessarily based on artefacts. This is why they talk of painting pictures. Some of the body of study requires questioning. I mean what if they had experienced a freak wave, during a stomache-ache bad-wind event. The cargo would have acted as a direct, driving force aimed at the sea-floor. Perhaps, greed sealed the fate of the ship. I guess the exact dating window (established via the existence of the lead-foundry named on the ingots), led to the piracy, or threat of piracy idea. I believe the crew went down with it. So, that still leads to questions.
So, the ingots weighed 33kg each and the ship carried 33 tons at 33m below the waves. Dr Salvi leads the team of salvagers?
Again, given what this board knows about numerology, there are more questions that require research.
Furthermore, there is Clif-High's prediction of new technologies de-clas. And here we have Quantum computers in the near future? Clearly there is a lot here.