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grbs-14759	Lytle, Ephraim	Farmers into Sailors: Ship Maintenance, Greek Agriculture, and the Athenian Monopoly on Kean Ruddle (IG II2 1128)	2013	31	.pdf	application/pdf	12065	469	62	Like that which was sometimes used to paint ship’s eyes or bow patches, this red could be interpreted as merely decorative.33 While it has been suggested that decorative ele- ments on triremes might be sufficient to explain the Athenian monopoly on Kean ruddle, that argument is not very com- pelling.34 On the other hand, wax seems to have been widely used in ship maintenance and Pliny reports that when used on ships encaustic paints were known to be “immune to wind and sun and salt water” (nec sole nec sale ventisve corrumpitur).35 By the fourth century, no doubt in response to ship- worm, Greek merchant ships were sometimes, like the Nemi ships, sheathed in lead (or perhaps, but far more rarely, cop- per), and this practice seems to have become widespread during the Hellenistic period.47 In the Kyrenia ship this lead was not applied directly to the hull, but over a thin matting that Steffy describes as composed of “agave leaves, simply woven and saturated in a red-brown resinous pitch …	cache/grbs-14759.pdf	txt/grbs-14759.txt