Archaeological sonar survey project, Motya cothon (Sicily, Italy) - 1971

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View of the sixth century BCE artificial "harbor" or drydock (cothon) on the Phoenician island-settlement of Motya, near Marsala in SW Sicily. Harold E. Edgerton conducted sonar surveys in 1971 along the island edge beyond the cothon, at the invitation of Benedict J. E. Isserlin. (CC)

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