corbita

plural corbitas

1. historicalnauticalA two-masted merchant ship of Ancient Rome.

   The corbita was heading directly back to Chalcedon, on the Asian side of the Straits.

   1998, Eric Flint, David Drake, In the Heart of Darkness

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   The reverse depicts a Roman corbita of the third century CE against the background of a map of the Mediterranean Sea from Tunisia and Sicily in the west to the eastern end of that sea and two lions in the foreground.

   2007, Yossi Dotan, Watercraft on World Coins: Europe, 1800-2005, page 51

   Two corbitas have arrived at the shipwright in Pompeii, back from Persia; on board are the fine silks and spices that I ordered.

   2013, Coulsdon Writers, Back to the Writing, page 48