Ptolomaioi having Elephant Cataphracts?

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Plutarch wrote flat-bottomed transports. If you have access to JSTOR, see if you can find an article on Ptolemy Philadelphus' Elephant Hunting, which has a description on the ship the Ptolemaioi designed.

Thanks a lot Krusader! Baloon for your help. Quite the interesting article.

Though it does mention that Ptolemais Theron was founded after the EB start date as a base from which elephant hunts would take place. Why then do the Ptolemies control that town from the start date or should that town even exist in EBII?

Also the article states that the ships required for transporting elephants were invented during Philadelphus' reign somewhere around 270 or so. This would place the invention of the ships after Phyrrus had already used Elephants in his Italian campaign. There might be no firm answer to this question but I thought I'd raise it anyway.