Sveti Pavao shipwreck : a 16th century Venetian merchantman from Mljet, Croatia, with Italian and Croatian abstracts / by Carlo Beltrame, Sauro Gelichi and Igor Miholjek ; with contributions by Cristiano Alfonso, Jurica Bezak, Elisa Costa, Martina Curkovic, Margherita Ferri, Anita Jelic, Antonija Jozic, Garo Kürkman, Igor Mihajlovic, Robert Moskovic, Mladen Mustacek, Domagoj Perkic, Tajana Trbojevic Vukicevic and Vesna Zmaic Kralj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beltrame, Carlo, 1969- author.

Gelichi, Sauro, author.

Miholjek, Igor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shipwrecks--Croatia--Mljet Island.

Shipwrecks.

Merchant ships--Italy--Venice.

Merchant ships.

Underwater archaeology--Croatia--Mljet Island.

Underwater archaeology.

Mljet Island (Croatia)--Antiquities.

Mljet Island (Croatia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Between 2007 and 2012 the Department for Underwater Archaeology of the Croatian Conservation Institute from Zagreb and the Department of Humanistic Studies of the Ca' Foscari University of Venice collaborated in the recording, underwater excavation and analysis of the unusually well-preserved wreck of a 16th century Venetian merchantman in the Svetti Pavao shallow off the southern shore of the island of Mljet, Croatia. The shipwreck preserved many personal possessions of the crew as well as a number of bronze artillery pieces and the remains of a cargo of luxury and richly decorated ceramic ma

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Foreword; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Methodological and technical aspects; 2.1: Discovery, research methods and techniques; 2.2: The photogrammetric documentation of the hull; 2.3: The photographical documentation; 2.4: 3-D reconstruction of the hull; Chapter 3: The historical and archaeological maritime context; 3.1: The Adriatic Sea, pottery and shipwrecks in late and post-Medieval period: an archaeological perspective

3.2: Archaeological traces of Venetian navigation in the Mediterranean and Atlantic from the 16th and the 18th centuriesChapter 4: The shipwreck of Mljet; 4.1: The ship, its equipment and the crew's personal possessions; 4.2: The ordnance; 4.3: A transport of Iznik pottery; 4.4: Other pottery finds; 4.5: Glass finds; 4.6: Metal finds; 4.7: The Ottoman Akches; 4.8: Two Saxony talers; 4.9: Animal bones; 4.10: Considerations of dating and the historical context of the Mljet shipwreck; Chapter 5: Conclusions; Appendix: The conservation and restoration of the finds; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782977070

1782977074

9781782977094

1782977090