Bireme bas relief of Villa Albani. Furnished with two banks of oars, which is the more common use of the term “bireme”, this ancient Roman vessel of war had two lines of oars on each side, placed in a diagonal position one above the other, as in the example form the marble bas-relief from the Villa Albani, each oar being worked by a single rower. Albani (later Villa Albani-Torlonia) is a villa in Rome, built on the Via Salaria for Cardinal Alessandro Albani. It was built between 1747 and 1767.

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