spin

Umm, yeah, so?


spin

WVIncagold

With what? No Navy no blockade. he can siege all he wants on the mainland on the island i couldn't care less but without a navy its a exercises in futility.

arnoldo

So when Nebby attacked the island of Tyre for 13 years by creating a blockade how did Tyre obtain freshwater?

Jack the Bodiless

The same way they obtained everything else.

Gullwind

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you are from an inland area and have little experience with shipping, but ships can go other places besides a few hundred yards between an island and the coast. They can even bring in supplies (like food and water) from other cities far away from the besieging army.

It's really quite an interesting process.

arnoldo

True, but the lame argument is that Nebby was blockading ports up and down the coast to prevent any supplies to come in by ship.

Minimalist

Most of the towns in Palestine had a system of cisterns for collecting rainwater. Even if they weren't under "siege" (difficult for the Babylonians to do with no navy, anyway) unless there was a large freshwater spring on the island it seems more likely that they simply stored whatever fell as rain. Envisioning bringing barrels of water in from boats every day seems absurdly inefficient.

The city existed in that spot for millenia (and is still there TODAY). If water was that much of a problem it would have been abandoned millenia ago.

Jack the Bodiless

Well, it's not as if they had any shortage of water for bathing or generally washing stuff. They would only have needed a few cupfuls per person per day for drinking.

And if the combination of rain-collecting and shipping-in wasn't enough to sustain all the population, the surplus population could simply leave until the siege was over.

arnoldo

That makes sense. Would you agree that a hypothetical mainland city opposite the island Tyre could hypothetically have a large freshwater spring within it's walled city as well as cisterns to collect rainwater?

Jack the Bodiless

Maybe it's time for arnoldo to explain how a city on the mainland could have survived for 13 years, completely surrounded by Nebby's army?

Even if you assume they had a spring within the walls (...what walls, incidentally?)... what did they EAT?