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- Phoenician joints (Latin: coagmenta punicana) is a locked mortise and tenon wood joinery technique used in shipbuilding to fasten watercraft hulls. The locked (or pegged) mortise and tenon technique consists of cutting a mortise, or socket, into the edges of two planks and fastening them together with a rectangular wooden knob. The assembly is then locked in place by driving a dowel through one or more holes drilled through the mortise side wall and tenon. The Phoenicians pioneered the use of locked mortise and tenon joints in nautical joinery to secure the underwater planking of seagoing ships. The use of pegged mortises and tenons in shipbuilding spread westward from the Levantine littoral. Examples of the use of Phoenician joints in the ancient Mediterranean include the Uluburun ship, dated c. 1320±50 BC, and the Cape Gelidonya ship dated to c. 1200 BC. By the first millennium BC, Phoenician joints became a common edge-to-edge fastening method. Ancient Greek and Roman shipbuilders adopted the technique of Phoenician joinery. Roman writers credited the joinery technique to Phoenicians by calling it coagmenta punicana or Punicanis coamentis. The ancient Greek historian Polybius reported that the Romans copied the locked mortise and tenon technique from a Punic warship that ran aground in 264 BC. They exploited this technique to their advantage early in the First Punic War in 260 BC which allowed them to build a fleet of 100 quinqueremes within a period of two months. (en)
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- Ancient Phoenician Shekel depicting King Tennes fighting a beat on its face and a war galley on its reverse (en)
- Ancient Phoenician Shekel depicting fortified walls, a war galley and lions. (en)
- Ancient Phoenician Shekel depicting King Abdashtart on its face and a war galley on its reverse (en)
- Drawing of a wooden ship with annotations of hull elements. (en)
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- Phoenician joint with pegged mortise and tenon construction (en)
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- The Phoenicians were famed in antiquity for their shipbuilding skills. They often depicted ships and war galleys on their currency, the shekel. (en)
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- Coin of Abdashtart I, Achaemenid Phoenicia.jpg (en)
- PHOENICIA, Sidon. Tennes. Circa 351-347 BC.jpg (en)
- PhoenicianCoin2A.png (en)
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- Watercraft hulls secured with locked mortise and tenon joints (en)
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- Phoenician joints (Latin: coagmenta punicana) is a locked mortise and tenon wood joinery technique used in shipbuilding to fasten watercraft hulls. The locked (or pegged) mortise and tenon technique consists of cutting a mortise, or socket, into the edges of two planks and fastening them together with a rectangular wooden knob. The assembly is then locked in place by driving a dowel through one or more holes drilled through the mortise side wall and tenon. (en)
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