Antalya-Kumluca Bronze Age Shipwreck 2019 studies-first analyses

ÖNİZ H.

PALESTINE EXPLORATION QUARTERLY, cilt.151, sa.3-4, ss.172-183, 2019 (AHCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 151 Sayı: 3-4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2019
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/00310328.2019.1700640
  • Dergi Adı: PALESTINE EXPLORATION QUARTERLY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.172-183
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Underwater Archaeology, Bronze Age Shipwreck, Kumluca, Antalya, excavation XRF analysis
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In 2018, a wreck carrying pillow-shaped copper ingots was found off the shores of the Kumluca District of Antalya. This shipwreck, which can be dated to 16th-15th B.C., probably belongs to a merchant vessel that sank as a result of hitting the shore during a storm. Work on the vessel, which sank in ancient Lycia, began in the summer of 2019. A sample of ingots was removed from the shipwreck and one of the ingots was found to be marked for shipment: an early example of such signs, many of which were seen in the Late Bronze Age. XRF analyses conducted by Antalya Conservation and Restoration Laboratory show that the samples taken from pillow and bun-shaped ingots of the main cargo are copper.