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Cape Gelidonya shipwreck

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Phoenician merchant vessel that was wrecked around 1200 BC.

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Cape Gelidonya

Cape Gelidonya (Turkish: Gelidonya Burnu or Taşlık Burnu, from Greek: Χελιδωνία, Chelidonia) near Finike, Turkey is the site of a late Bronze Age shipwreck (c. 1200 BC). In view of the cargo's nature and composition the excavators have proposed a possible Levantine provenance. The remains of the ship sat at a depth of about 27 m,[2] on irregular rocky bottom. It was located in 1954, and the excavation began in 1960 by Peter Throckmorton, George F. Bass, and Frédéric Dumas. Among the finds were Mycenaean pottery, scrape copper, copper and tin ingots, and merchant weights.

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