Roman-Egyptian pleasure-boat found off Alexandria

[Duncan Head]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/ancient-egyptian-pleasure-boat-found-archaeologists-alexandria-coast

[Jim Webster]

'an ancient pleasure boat decreed'   

[Denis Grey]

Does it have purple sails?  (So perfumed that the winds were lovesick with them.)

[Duncan Head]

No indication that it has sails at all 

[Adrian Nayler]

Presumably vessels like this were the inspiration for the similar and roughly contemporaneous ships (of Caligulan date) discovered at Lake Nemi in the Alban Hills south of Rome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemi_ships

The ship museum at Nemi is a rather forlorn and depressing visit as the impressive fascist-era building lost its prime exhibits to a fire caused by Allied shelling in 1944. The one-fifth scale modern replicas are still quite impressive though, and the surviving bronze fittings hint at the ostentation, and the weight, of their fittings and decoration.

[Sharur]

No indication that it has sails at all 

Are you sure?