Uluburun [Turkey] shipwreck, artifacts.
Title |
Uluburun [Turkey] shipwreck, artifacts. |
Cultural Context |
Aegean |
Style/Period |
Bronze Age |
Subject |
Sculpture Metalwork Goldwork Figurines Pendants (Jewelry) Jewelry Boxes Cosmetics Mechanical works Women Acrobats Acrobatics Entertainers Goddesses Myths Legends Supernatural beings Fictitious characters Nudes Clothing & dress Headdresses Headgear Animals Birds Ducks Gazelles Insects Symbols Shipwrecks |
Description |
"Artifacts from the wreck include: the ivory figurine of a female acrobat with her feet on her head; a gold pendant of a nude fertility goddess holding gazelles in her hands; a partly gold-clad bronze figurine of a goddess, perhaps the ship's protective deity; an ivory cosmetics box shaped like a duck with movable wings: two Canaanite gold pendants; and the gold Nefertiti scarab." (Caption, p. 315); "Without doubt it was a royal cargo. And an exceptional one, at that. We can only guess how its loss, toward the end of the 14th century BC, affected the history of some unknown Aegean kingdom. The varied cargo included ten tons of copper and one ton of tin, the perfect ratio for making eleven tons of bronze, could have equipped an entire army with weapons had they reached port. Instead, the ship that carried this invaluable freight crashed against a rocky cape known today as Uluburun, on the southwest Turkish coast […]." (Excerpt by George F. Bass, p. 306) |
Material |
Bronze (metal) Gold (metal) Metal Ivory (tooth component) |
Technique |
Metalworking Casting (process) Sculpting |
Work Type |
Sculpture Jewelry Figurines Boxes Bronzes (objects) Metalwork Ivories (sculptures) |
Repository |
Bodrum Museum [of Underwater Archaeology] (Bodrum, Turkey) |
Source |
Valavanis, Panos. Great Moments in Greek Archaeology. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007. (p.315, figs.18-24). |
Rights |
© 2007 Kapon Editions, Athens, Greece. Source of illustrations in Valavanis: Institute of Nautical Archaeology / D.A. Frey. |
Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
Format |
image/jpeg |
Digital File Name |
VRC 758-32.jpg |
Rating |
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