Rigging Chronology

This is a basic rigging chronology that is currently under construction.

Date	Event	Image	Comment	Source
50,000 BC	Colonization of Australia		Archaeological finds	Bellwood 1979, 38-43.
11,000 BC	Sailing in the Mediterranean		Obsidian from Melos in SE Peloponnese Franchthi Cave	Cherry 1990, 193.
3500 c. BC	First depiction of a sail (square)		Egypt - Pot from the Gerzean period. Probably not Egyptian, as the ship has high prow and stern, looking more like Mesopotamian	Bass 1972, 12-13
3000 c. BC	Stone buildings and plank boats		Egypt	Casson 1994, 15
2500 c. BC	Rowing and tiller bar		Egypt	Casson 1994, 19
2450 c. BC	Seagoing ships with hogging trusses and bipod masts		Egypt - Relief in Sahure pyramid.	Casson 1994, 22
2000 c. BC	Low aspect sail		Egypt	Casson 1994, 36
1900 c. BC	Pole mast stepped amidships		Egypt	Casson 1994, 20
1500 c. BC	Seagoing ships with pole masts		Egypt - Hatshepsut tomb relief	Casson 1994, 24
1400 c. BC	Round ships. Sails still have booms.		Egypt - Painting in tomb in Thebes	Casson 1994, 37
1190 c. BC	Loose-footed square sail		Relief on the temple of Ramses III.	Casson 1994, 24
510 c. BC	Brails		Athenian cup in the British Museum	Casson 1994, 44-46
480 c. BC	Artemon mast	480BC_Casson46-38.jpg	Etruscan tomb in Tarquinia	Casson 1994, 44-46
400's BC	Large merchantmen: ten-thousenders		Greece	Casson 1994, 121
230 c. BC	Syracuse: three masts		Description by Atheneus	Casson 1994, 122
	Sails (leather): ships of the Veneti
100's	Lateen rig		Tombstone found in the Piraeus, now in Athens, dated to the 2nd century.	Casson 1994, 118
200 c.	Sprit rig		Tombstone, Istanbul	Casson 1994, 116
200 c.	Leather sail?		Relief in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Trier, Germany. Battens suggest a leather sail.	Casson 1994, 135
400 c.	Yassiada II Shipwreck
500 c.	Tantura A Shipwreck
510 c.	Square sail		Last representation of a square sail in the Mediterranean. Dated to 504-526. Church of Sant Apollinare Nuovo. Ravena.	Casson 1994
600-625	St. Gervais II Shipwreck
625 c	Yassiada I
sec IX	Two-masted lateener		Representation in Greek manuscript	Carbonell Relat s/d, 28
800 c.	Tantura F Shipwreck
850 c.	Sails (square) in Viking ships: Gokstad Ship			Casson 1994, 147
850 c.	Square sails in the Mediterranean?		Representations of a square sails in Carolingian manuscripts.	Haywood 1999, 180 and Cassagnes-Brouquet 2003, 28-29.(1)
874 c.	Bozburun Shipwreck
900 c.	Agay A Shipwreck
900 c.	Agay B Shipwreck
900 c.	Bateguier Shipwreck
115...	Central rudder: Kolerup cog
1025 c.	Serçe Limani Shipwreck
1150-1200	Central rudder: iconography		Relief Winchester Cathedral	Casson 1994, 153
			Earliest representation of a square sail in the Mediterranean after the 5th century. Church in Pec.	Bellabarba
	First mention of a caravel - Genoa			Ciciliot 2005
	Carracks with two masts		Alfonso X, Las siete partidas	Carbonell Relat s/d, 28
	FIRST COCCHE iconography?
1200's	three-masted lateener		"St. Mark approaching Egypt", mosaic, Basilica of St. Mark, Venice.	Casson 1964, 78
1226	Mention of a caravel in Portugal		Foral de Gaia?	Elb 1986, 546
1438	Caravels built for the king of Burgundy			Paviot 1989, 309
1300 c.	Contarina I Ship
1310-1350	Painting by Paolo Veneziano w/ skeleton first			Bash 1972, fig. 12
1300-1325	Culip VI Shipwreck
1336-1338	Quadra-latina		Painting "dal Buon Governo" by Ambrosio Lorenzetti, in the Pinacoteca di Siena.	Bellabarba 1999, 85
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