Thalamegos
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Thalamegos was a 115 by, 20 m (65.6 ft) high, two-story Nile river palace barge
. The huge twin-hulled catamaran
was commissioned by Hellenistic king Ptolemy IV Philopator
for himself and his wife Arsinoe III ca. 200 BCE.
Barge
A barge is a flat-bottomed boat, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods. Some barges are not self-propelled and need to be towed by tugboats or pushed by towboats...
. The huge twin-hulled catamaran
Catamaran
A catamaran is a type of multihulled boat or ship consisting of two hulls, or vakas, joined by some structure, the most basic being a frame, formed of akas...
was commissioned by Hellenistic king Ptolemy IV Philopator
Ptolemy IV Philopator
Ptolemy IV Philopator , son of Ptolemy III and Berenice II of Egypt was the fourth Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt...
for himself and his wife Arsinoe III ca. 200 BCE.