Serce Liman [electronic resource] : an eleventh-century shipwreck. Volume 1, The ship and its anchorage, crew, and passengers / by George F. Bass ... [et al.] ; with James W. Allan ... [et al.] ; illustrated by Selma Agar, G. Venetia Piercy, and Sema Pulak ; photographs by Donald A. Frey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bass, George Fletcher.

Allan, James W.

Institute of Nautical Archaeology (U.S.)

Series:

Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series.

Ed Rachal Foundation nautical archaeology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipwrecks--Turkey.

Shipwrecks.

Turkey--Antiquities.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (volumes 1-2) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

College Station, TX : Texas A&M University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Serçe Limani or "the Glass Wreck," so called because its cargo included three metric tons of glass cullet, trafficked in both the Byzantine and Islamic worlds of its time. This first volume of the complete site report introduces the discovery, the methods of its excavation, the conservation of its artifacts, and the picture of daily shipboard life that can be drawn from this underwater museum.

Contents:

v. 1. The ship and its anchorage, crew, and passengers.

v. 2. The glass of an eleventh-century shipwreck.

Notes:

Published with the cooperation of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-548) and index.

ISBN:

1-299-05375-0

1-60344-651-6

OCLC:

798297961