cothonとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cothon (複数形 cothons)

1. An artificial, protected harbor in a Phoenician city, especially and originally the one in Carthage.
   • 1965, Helen Hill Miller, Sicily and the Western Colonies of Greece, New York: Scribner:

     The cothons at Carthage, during the Punic wars, are said to have held over two hundred ships. The small size of the Motya cothon may be accounted for by  […]

   • 1973, Rivista Di Studi Fenici, volume 1, page 142:

     Cothons - artificial inner harbours, or perhaps rather docks and repair basins - are another architectural feature ascribed to Phoenician and Punic towns […]

   • 1999, Ancient Infrastructure: Remarkable Roads, Mines, Walls, Mounds, Stone Circles : a Catalog of Archeological Anomalies:

     It resembles the Phoenician cothons'.