Serçe Limani: An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck Vol. 1, The Ship and Its Anchorage, Crew, and Passengers

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Texas A&M University Press, 16 ago 2004 - 592 páginas
For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serçe Limani, Turkey, filled with evidence of trade and objects of daily life. The ship, now excavated by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time.

The ship is known as “the Glass Wreck” because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, including broken Islamic vessels, and eighty pieces of intact glassware. In addition, it held glazed Islamic bowls, red-ware cooking vessels, copper cauldrons and buckets, wine amphoras, weapons, tools, jewelry, fishing gear, remnants of meals, coins, scales and weights, and more.

This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation, and the conservation of its artifacts. Chapters cover the details of the ship, its contents, the probable personal possessions of the crew, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from the discoveries.
 

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Introduction and Explanations
3
The Ship the Site and the Excavation
11
The Region of Serge Limani in Classical Times
13
The Region of Serge Limani in Byzantine Times
21
An Archaeological History of the Anchorage
31
Discovery Excavation and Conservation
47
Discovery Excavation and Conservation
49
The Ship Hull Rigging Anchors and Ballast
71
Personal Effects
275
Jewelry
289
Tools
297
The Gaming Pieces
329
Metal Vessels
345
The Weapons
363
Fishing Gear
399
The Padlocks
437

Introduction to Ship Studies
73
Recording the Hull
75
The Hull Remains
81
Reconstruction Reassembly and Display
123
Construction and Analysis of the Vessel
153
Evidence for the Rig of the Serge Limam Ship
171
The Anchors
189
Ballast Distribution and Weight
241
The Querns
255
Possessions Victuals
263
The Ship Its Lading and Its Living Spaces
265
LeadIsotope Analyses of Glass Glazes and Some Metal Artifacts
453
Victuals
469
Faunal Remains
471
Plant Remains
495
Appendices
513
Shipbuilding Glossary
515
Concordance of Lot Numbers and Grid Areas of Site
519
Bibliography
533
Index
549
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Página xii - Hull and, recently, visiting research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh.

Sobre el autor (2004)

GEORGE F. BASS headed this research team, which is based out of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University in College Station.

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