2426) "Ancient Cities of the Mediterranean - Underwater Archeology", France: "EUROMED" theme for 2022: La Poste, France (French Post) has issued a postage stamp of €1.65 (Euro) featuring Dolia Ships and Bulk Wine Trade at the time of the Roman Empire: Date of Stamp issue: 11.07.2022:
The Postal Union for the Mediterranean (PUMed), created in Rome on 15.03.2011, by 14 Postal Administrations from the Mediterranean Region under the aegis of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), now has 23 members.
Over time, other postal operators have joined: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Mauritania, Morocco, Syrian Arab Republic and Tunisia, from the Permanent Arab Commission; Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey, belonging to PostEurop.
The objective behind this concept was to develop a similar project of the lines of "EUROPA" Stamps, wherein a theme will be chosen and all member countries will submit their design. As such, the Euromed Postal stamp project is a joint commitment, consisting of the annual issue of a stamp on the same theme.
Each member will then be free to issue the design prepared by it. This for the exception of the first stamp issued in 2014, where all members were obliged to have the same design.
The themes chosen for the member countries, since 2014, so far, are as follows:
2014 - “The Mediterranean”
2015 - “Boats used in the Mediterranean”
2016 - “Fish in the Mediterranean”
2017 - “Trees in the Mediterranean”
2018 - “Houses in the Mediterranean”
2019 - “Costumes used in the Mediterranean”
2020 - "Traditional Gastronomy in the Mediterranean"
2021 - "Handicraft Jewelry in the Mediterranean"
2022 - "Ancient Cities of the Mediterranean"
A Stamp brought out by La Poste, France (French Post) on the "EUROMED Project theme" for 2022, "Ancient Cities of the Mediterranean" featuring Underwater Archaeology:
A brief:
Underwater archeology was born in the second half of the 20th century.
The invention of the scuba by Cousteau and Gagnan in 1943 and the rapidity with which its use spread after 1945 has been the source of most shipwreck discoveries, public interest in archeology submarine and the development it has experienced.
The current Department of Underwater and Underwater Archaeological Research (DRASSM), born of this pioneering dynamic of the 1960s and founded by André Malraux in 1966, has never ceased to bring French research in this field to the highest level - global.
Seas, lakes, rivers and streams preserve the traces of the populations who have crossed them, exploited them, developed them, from prehistory to the present day. Underwater and submarine archeology thus focuses on the detection and study of remains preserved under water.
These submerged structures and wrecks are all evidence of the occupation of the territory, the movement of people and goods, the evolution of techniques and the relationship maintained by man with his maritime, lake or river environment.
An underwater excavation requires a lot of technical and human resources. It is slower and more expensive than a land search. But it makes it possible to collect information that terrestrial archeology only very rarely provides.
The excavation of the West Giraglia 2 wreck, at Cap Corse, has thus brought new data to the file of Dolia ships and the bulk wine trade at the time of the Roman Empire. It was the starting point for a critical revision of what we thought we knew about this trading system, which had a very limited duration and which seems to have remained unique until the trade of contemporary pinardiers.
The Stamp issue:
The EUROMED - 2022 Postage Stamp issued by La Poste, France
The Philatelic Document (PD) gives a detailed description in French and carries the postage stamp of €1.65 a Stamp Cancelled to Order (CTO).
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