Yassi Ada: Volume I, A Seventh-Century Byzantine Shipwreck (Volume 1) (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series) - Hardcover

Bass, George F.; Doorninck Jr., Frederick H. Van

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890960631 ISBN 13: 9780890960639

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 1982

Synopsis

This book forms a final report on the underwater excavations I directed at Yassi Ada, Turkey, during the summers of 1961 through 1964 for the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. The excavation was the first to have been completed on the floor of the Mediterranean of a wreck with substantial hull remains. This pioneering work required the ingenuity, effort, and generosity of many people and institutions.

The seventh- century ship was chosen for primary excavation not only for its lesser depth, which allowed longer working dives, but also because Throckmorton had uncovered traces of its timbers just beneath the sand and because it was more intelligible from the outset: a stack of concreted iron anchors, lying across the cargo at its upper end, suggested the forward part of the ship pointing up the slope, toward Yassi Ada, while a mass of broken terra-cotta tiles and cooking ware suggested the galley—and, presumably, the stern—at the deeper end of the site.

About this title

About the Author:

GEORGE F. BASS headed this research team, which is based out of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University in College Station.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0890960631
• ISBN 13: 9780890960639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368