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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/91896| Title: | The Xlendi Bay shipwreck (Gozo, Malta ): a petrographic and typological study of an archaic ceramic cargo |
| Authors: | Anastasi, Maxine Capelli, Claudio Gambin, Timmy Sourisseau, Jean-Christophe |
| Keywords: | Underwater archaeology -- Malta -- Gozo Shipwrecks -- Malta -- Gozo Underwater exploration -- Malta -- Gozo Underwater archaeology -- Methodology Underwater archaeology -- Remote sensing Xlendi Bay (Munxar, Malta) Malta -- History -- Phoenician and Punic period, 8th century B.C.-218 B.C. |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Citation: | Anastasi, M., Capelli, C., Gambin, T., & Sourisseau, J. C. (2021). The Xlendi Bay shipwreck (Gozo, Malta): a petrographic and typological study of an archaic ceramic cargo. Libyan Studies, 52, 166-172. |
| Abstract: | An underwater survey off the southwest coast of the island of Gozo revealed a well-preserved shipwreck 110 m below the surface. The site belonged to a previously unknown wreck with a cargo of volcanic millstones and ceramic amphorae dating to the 7th century BC. This article presents the first results of thin-section analysis taken from the pottery objects, and concludes that the ship was carrying a heterogeneous cargo of amphora-borne goods from the Maltese islands, North Tunisia, and possibly Sicily, making it the earliest, known shipwreck in the central Mediterranean; and provides the earliest evidence for Maltese external trade in the central Mediterranean. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/91896 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtCA |
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