BOZUKKALE SHIPWRECK BODRUM MUSEUM OF UNDERWATER ARCHEOLOGY
Автор: Mehmet Çuhadar
Загружено: 2025-02-09
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Bozukkale Shipwreck, located between 30 and 47 meters deep, was dated to the end of the 7th or the beginning of the 6th century BC. This unique archaic period shipwreck, exhibited in the German Tower of Bodrum Castle, was found near Marmaris. The finds of the wreck in the Rhodes Canal, an important transit area for ancient maritime trade in the Mediterranean, show that the ship may have originated from Cyprus. The boat was heading for the Aegean region, passing via Egypt, Phoenicia, and Cyprus. The finds show that the ship had a unique cargo, carrying offerings to a temple rather than a standard cargo of a merchant ship.
Bozukkale Shipwreck was found within the scope of the Türkiye Shipwreck Inventory Project in 2013 with Piri Reis research ship affiliated to 9 Eylül University, Marine Sciences, and Technology Institute. The underwater excavation, carried out for the first time by a Turkish University, started under Associate Professor Harun Özdaş in 2017. The most important feature distinguishing the Bozukkale shipwreck from the other shipwrecks found in the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas was that it carried a statue group made of terracotta and limestone. It was the only terra cotta and limestone statue-carrying ship discovered in the Mediterranean. But the ship's main load was more than three hundred large plates called Mortarium. The vessel had statues of Cypriot origin, and some came from Naukratis in Egypt. Large plates of the Mortarium type were used for crushing and grinding spices for food offerings in holy places. These pots produced in Cyprus are seen in the Nile Delta, Syria, Palestine, southern Anatolian coasts, and the Aegean region. Apart from the large vessels, amphorae of Cyprus, Finike, Chios, and Miletus origin and various ceramics were also found on the ship.
In addition, many fishing net weights, and small painted ceramic vessels were found. In 2019, a limestone male statue holding a lion's skin was found in a shipwreck in good condition at a depth of 39 meters.
During the excavation, 423 dives were accomplished by teams of 2-4 divers. During this work, archeologists spent 420 hours in water and discovered 444 artifacts, including fragments of two lion figurines and a hawk figure.
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