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The artifacts
listed below were among those found on the Uluburun shipwreck. Click on any
link for more information and an image, if one is available. The archaeologists
have numbered the artifacts to help organize this information. (KW means Kas
Wreck.)
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list, click here.
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artifact information sheet, click here.
Precious
metal, raw glass, and faience
Two gold
necklaces
One gold chalice (KW
57)
Falcon
gold pendant
Astarte pendant (KW
703)
Large gold roundel (KW
756)
Gold rectangular pendant depicting a woman with a flounced skirt (KW
757)
Gold horn-shaped pendant (KW
892)
Bits of scrap gold (KW
956)
Gold bar (KW
928)
Faience ram-head rhyton (KW
707)
One faience rhyton in the shape of a woman
Large number of scarabs - many were old seals
One hundred and seventy-five raw
glass ingots
Faience
beads (some near KW 701)
Blue glass relief bead (KW
829)
Gold-clad bronze female figurine
Nefertiti gold scarab (KW
772)
Egyptian
electrum ring (near KW 772 and KW 703)
Two silver
bracelets
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Copper,
tin, bronze, and lead
Bronze
hoe (KW
839) (near 3 sickles, several arrowheads, and 4 fishhooks)
Bronze chisels (KW
748)
Bronze fishhook (KW
924)
Two curved bronze knives (KW
800)
One bronze
dagger
Three daggers
of Canaanite type
Bronze
tools and weapons comprising spear heads, daggers, and adzes
Pear-shaped mace heads
Bronze
double-headed axe
Weights in animal form -
fly, sheep
Bronze pin
Lead net and line sinkers
Bronze
balance-pan weights -
One water fowl shape (KW 873)
One recumbent animal (sphinx) (KW 727)
Bronze
bowls (poorly preserved)
Bronze finger cymbal (KW 923)
Bronze razor (KW 749)
Large bronze fishhook with its barb on the outside (KW
1225)
A hundred
lead fishing-net weights in two sizes (near KW 905)
Three hundred and fifty-four copper
ox-hide ingots (four-handled and two-handled types)
One hundred and twenty one copper
bun ingots (discoid or plano-convex)
One ton of ox-hide
tin ingots (N11 and N12 on the map grid)
Five
tin vessels
Tools
- adzes, axes, saw, tongs (near KW 905)
Bronze
trident with barbed prongs (near KW 905)
Needles (for repairing fishing nets)
Tin pilgrim flask (KW
1085)
One
Canaanite sword and one Canaanite dagger
Two Mycenean
bronze swords
Bronze
spear heads
Bronze
awl with wooden handle preserved
Tin Bes figurines
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Pottery
and contents
Mycenaean
fineware pitcher (beaked jug) (KW
725)
Mycenaean stemmed goblet or kylix
(near gold chalice KW 57)
Pilgrim flasks (KW
791)
Coarse-ware stirrup jars (KW
1188 and KW 1198)
Pyriform stirrup jar (KW
905)
One hundred and forty-nine amphoras (several at KW
844)
Nine pithoi (KW
251, KW 252, KW 253)
One of three Base Ring II bowls found in a pithos (KW
730)
Milk bowls found in a pithos (KW
1059)
One of three white shaved juglets from a pithos (KW
1058)
Cypriot oil lamps from a pithos(KW
1059)
Shallow hand-built bowl with wishbone handle from a pithos
Pitcher with trefoil mouth from a pithos (KW
812)
One of three Bucchero
jugs recovered from a pithos
Four Canaanite
oil lamps
Wall brackets (KW
759 and KW 1001)
Three stirrup jars (KW
905)
Mycenaean
fineware cup and globular stirrup jar
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Stone,
wood, shell, and ivory
Agate cylinder
seal blanks (KW
840 and KW793)
Whetstone (KW
701)
Rock-crystal bead (KW
767)
Stone
balance weights (near KW 701)
African
black wood (ebony) (near KW 761)
Diptych (book carved from wood) (KW
737)
Ceremonial
scepter-mace of volcanic stone
Hippopotamus ivory (KW
252)
Two ivory
duck-shaped containers
Tortoise
carapaces
Astragals
(knuckle bones)
Three sea shell rings (KW
801)
Elephant
ivory - section of tusks and full-sized tusks
Beads
of agate, carnelian, jasper, quartz, seashell, ostrich eggshell and
faience
Five beads
of Baltic amber
Ostrich
egg shells (near KW 761)
Marble mace-head (KW
278)
Kassite
cylinder seal of quartz
Two quartz cylinder seals (KW
714 and KW 881)
One hematite
cylinder seal
Two Mycenaean
lentoid seals
Twenty-four stone
anchors
Steatite seal blanks (KW 819)
Murex
shells
Egyptian steatite plaque
Ship planking
that formed part of the hull of the ship
Cedar
logs
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