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Hi everybody!
Long time no see.
I started a thread a few years ago regarding windmills in the greco-roman world.
This has come to my knowledge:
"Archaeological works are continuing to unearth Roman-era windmills in the ancient city of Misis, an important Roman-era city, as part of a project titled “The Infinite City: Misis” done by Yüreğir Municipality in the southern province of Adana.
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He said works still continued to revive two second- and third-century windmills."
I also read this in the Oxford handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World regarding the word anemourion:
"The precise meaning remains obscure, but a reasonable guess would be 'windwhirl' or the like. Nor is it obvious what this 'windwhirl' would be: a toy for children or, perhaps, a useful machine? In the latter case, one would rather think of a water-rising plant of the simple kind still common in the Italian countryside."
What do you think? Do you know anything more about the possibilities of windmills in the Roman Empire?