These objects could be connected with a tool called the harpax, and the "Liburnian" was a common type of them.
Two of these objects built for Caligula's worship of Diana were unearthed in Nemi. Specific parts of these objects taken at the Battle of Antium were used to decorate a speaking platform in the Forum called the rostra. These objects could be connected with a tool called the harpax, and the "Liburnian" was a common type of them. More than 100 of these objects could fit in a hexagonal structure constructed by Trajan to the north of (*) Ostia. Nero's plot to kill his mother Agrippina the Younger involved a self-destructing example of these objects. A device for drawing these objects together, the corvus, was first used at the Battle of Mylae. During a siege, some of these vehicles under the command of Marcellus were supposedly targeted by giant hooks and heat-rays devised by Archimedes. For 10 points, name these vehicles exemplified by the trireme, which made up the Roman navy.
Two of these objects built for Caligula's worship of Diana were unearthed in Nemi.
Roman ships [or obvious equivalents like boats, barges, galleys, triremes, etc]