page_title: Syracusia
hierarchical_section_title: Syracusia
caption_attribution_description: English: An exaggerated depiction of the Syracusia, a large cargo and passenger transport ship of Ancient Greece and one of the largest of antiquity.
context_page_description: Syracusia was a 110 m ancient Greek ship sometimes claimed to be the largest transport ship of antiquity. She was reportedly too big for any port in Sicily, and thus only sailed once from Syracuse in Sicily to Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, whereupon she was given as a present to Ptolemy III Euergetes.
context_section_description: Syracusia (Greek: Συρακουσία, syrakousía, literally "of Syracuse") was a 110 m (360 ft) ancient Greek ship sometimes claimed to be the largest transport ship of antiquity. She was reportedly too big for any port in Sicily, and thus only sailed once from Syracuse in Sicily to Alexandria in the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, whereupon she was given as a present to Ptolemy III Euergetes.
caption: Syracusia as imagined in 1798.
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