A 1760s depiction gives Ecnomus ships unlike the oared galleys that fought there. It also leaves masts standing, though Roman and Carthaginian crews normally struck them before battle. Polybius does not explicitly mention mast removal at Ecnomus. That distinction separates a broader operational practice from what the battle narrative actually records.
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Later battle art imports the wrong ships into Ecnomus
An eighteenth-century illustration looks nothing like Punic War galleys and even leaves masts standing when crews normally struck them before combat.