Bronze Age Shipwreck Excavation at Cape Gelidonya


Ceramic Objects

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CG431.1.JPG (134007 bytes) Return visits to the site in the late 1980s, nearly thirty years after the original excavation, located two well-preserved Mycenaean IIIBstirrup jars about fifty meters from the main area of wreckage. (Photo: INA)
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One of the stirrup jars being cleaned of concretion in the conservation laboratory in the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. (Photo: INA)
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Cg512.jpg (74605 bytes) The Mycenaean stirrup-jar after conservation and cleaning. (Photo: INA)                      
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A pot of unknown origin(?) from the original excavation. (Photo: INA)
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Cg200.jpg (189842 bytes) Broken pottery from the site was sorted in the primitive work areas of the expedition camp. (Photo: INA)
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The ship’s only oil lamp, found in what seems to have been a living space, is Canaanite or Syro-Palestinian. (Photo: INA)
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