entity · site_uluburun_shipwreck
Uluburun shipwreck
Also known as: Uluburun wreck
Late fourteenth-century BCE shipwreck off southern Anatolia with a cargo including approximately ten tonnes of copper in oxhide and bun ingots and diverse eastern Mediterranean goods.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1330 BCE–1310 BCE
Precision: approximate
- informs · provides archaeological observation
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade — Cemal Pulak (2008)Authoritative excavation context.
Locator: Shipwreck and cargo synthesis - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Links cargo form and likely provenance to production systems.
Locator: Cypriot copper trade - informs · provides provenance model
The Role of the Apliki Mine Region in the Post-c. 1400 BC Copper Production and Trade Networks of Cyprus — Noel H. Gale, Zofia A. Stos-Gale (2012)Supports Cyprus/Solea source arguments with caveats.
Locator: Lead-isotope source attribution
Research description
Uluburun is a cross-regional context for Cypriot copper cargo movement, weights, exchange, and shipborne aggregation. Cargo provenance does not identify a precise Cypriot export port, route, merchant, or political owner.
Evidence and sources
- informs · provides archaeological observation
The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade — Cemal Pulak (2008)Authoritative excavation context.
Locator: Shipwreck and cargo synthesis - informs · contextualizes
The Production and Trade of Cypriot Copper in the Late Bronze Age: An Analysis of the Evidence — Vasiliki Kassianidou (2013)Links cargo form and likely provenance to production systems.
Locator: Cypriot copper trade - informs · provides provenance model
The Role of the Apliki Mine Region in the Post-c. 1400 BC Copper Production and Trade Networks of Cyprus — Noel H. Gale, Zofia A. Stos-Gale (2012)Supports Cyprus/Solea source arguments with caveats.
Locator: Lead-isotope source attribution
Referenced records
- Geography assertion for site_uluburun_shipwreck · geography assertion