ABSTRACT
Modern study of ancient harbours in the Mediterranean virtually begins with the magnum opus of Karl Lehmann-Hartleben. 1 This work is, I suspect, more often quoted than read, even in the abbreviated version which appeared soon afterwards in Pauly-Wissowa's encyclopaedia. This is understandable in a way, for his catalogue of sites is a good starting-point for the study of an ancient harbour and can be managed without much knowledge of German; and consultation of the index provides the main references to a site in the text. But it is important to do more than this: Lehmann-Hartleben did not just write an exhaustive site catalogue, but made the first attempt in modern times to analyse the development of harbour construction in the Mediterranean area in antiquity.
