
Serce Limani
An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck Vol. 1, the Ship and Its Anchorage, Crew, and Passengers
Texas A & M University Press
Published on 31. August 2004
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Hardback
592 pages
978-0-89096-947-2 (ISBN)
Description
For almost a millennium, a modest wooden ship lay underwater off the coast of Serce 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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English
Place of publication
College Station
United States
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121 b/w photographs, 129 line drawings, 3 maps
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Height: 310 mm
Width: 235 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
2530 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-89096-947-2 (9780890969472)
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