Site details

Sheytan Deresi Shipwreck

PK	C6766
TITLE	Sheytan Deresi Shipwreck
WGS84	36.998194° N, 27.693869° E
Accuracy	50 m.

LAT/LON	36.998194, 27.693869
LON/LAT	27.693869, 36.998194

DMS

36° 59' 53.4984" N

27° 41' 37.9284" E

W3W	inflict, unremarked, nicknames
UTM	35 S, 561739, 4094897
EGSA87	828590, 4100766

Elevation m	0
Elevation feet	0
Region	Anatolia
Subregion	Caria

GENERAL SITE TYPE Shipwreck

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   Bass [1976], 296    ' ..., all of the pottery is of a brown, coarse fabric, heavily pitted and with white grit, ... '
2.    Shipwreck.   Bass [1976], 293    ' ... an Archaic wreck ... '
3.    Shipwreck.   Wachsmann [1998], 205    'In 1973 a Bronze Age wreck site was found ... '

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Middle Helladic: (2000 BC - 1600 BC)
    a.    Bass [1976]: 302, ' ..., I would say that the interior surfaces of the pottery remind me more of Middle Helladic pottery than of any later pottery I have personally handled.'

2. Middle Minoan III: (1750 BC - 1675 BC)
    a.    Bass [1976]: 301, 'Amphoras SD 6 - SD 8 are best paralleled in Middle Minoan III Crete, probably late in the period or approximately the first quarter of the 16th century BC ... '

3. Late Minoan I: (1675 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Bass [1976]: 301, ' ..., and krater SD 9 is similar to Late Minoan I kraters from Tylissos.'

4. Late Minoan IB: (1625 BC - 1470 BC)
    a.    Wachsmann [1998]: 206, ? 'The Sheytan Deresi pottery which has been dated to ca. 1600 B.C., has a mixture of Aegean and Anatolian characterisstics.'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Bass [1976]: Bass, George. ‘Sheytan Deresi: preliminary report’, The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology and Underwater Exploration (5:4) 293-303. 1976, '', pg. 293. Online here.

2. Wachsmann [1998]: Wachsmann, Shelley. Seagoing Ships & Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, TX, USA. 1998, 'Turkey; Sheytan Deresi.', pg. 205.