Flotilla Fresco

Did You Know?Flotilla comes from the diminutive form of the Spanish noun flota, meaning 'fleet.' Flota derives via Old French from Old Norse 'floti' and is related to Old English 'flota' ('ship'), an ancestor to our word float. Much like other words referring to groups of particular things (such as 'swarm'), 'flotilla' has taken on expanded usage to refer simply to a large number of something not necessarily having to do with nautical matters, often with humorous effect (e.g., 'a flotilla of rather mature-looking male models' - Jed Perl, The New Republic).

An even earlier image of the annual sacred journey to Delos may be portrayed in the miniature frieze known as the “Thera Flotilla Fresco”. The Fresco represents a ship procession from a bronze age excavation at Akrotiri, on the Greek island Santorini. Idle apocalypse mod apk revdl.