The Antikythera Shipwreck: The Ship, the Treasures, the Mechanism, Exhibition Catalogue, National Archaeological Museum, Athens 2012 (original) (raw)
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A. Christopoulou – A. Gadolou – P. Bouyia (eds), The Antikythera Shipwreck. The Technology of the Ship, the Cargo and the Mechanism, Athens, 2012
The present publication, on the technology of the ship, the cargo and the Mechanism of the Antikythera shipwreck, is exclusively funded by the company OTE-COSMOTE and is offered in connection with the homonymous temporary exhibition held at the National
Greece (Underwater Archaeology). In: The European Archaeologist, Issue 44, Spring 2015, pp. 41-53.
Correspondence from Greece: Underwater Archaeology. Includes contributions by : Julien Beck (The Terra Submersa expedition), Angeliki Simosi (The Antikythera shipwreck), Christina Marangou (general structure of the Correspondence, Conference “Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities: ’A dive into the past’, “The Antikythera Shipwreck, the Ship, the Treasures, the Mechanism” Exhibition, “The Antikythera Mechanism: Astronomy and Technology in Ancient Greece”: A new PhD thesis, submitted in 2014, The current underwater project: “Return to Antikythera”, as well as translation from Greek of A: SImosi's report « The Antikythera shipwreck »)
The discovery of the Antikythera Shipwreck: The social aspect
2014
The Antikythera Wreck is one of the most famous archaeological ensembles in the history of maritime archaeology. For more than a hundred years, since its discovery in 1900, it has played an important role in the development of the discipline, not only in Greece, but also at an international level. Especially in Greece the impact was - and still is – remarkable. In this case study I will struggle to analyze the social aspect of this impact in the time of the discovery. In order to do that though, instead of just looking for a cause and an effect, I will try to decompose the phenomenon to its primal factors and I look in between for inter-“actions” and hidden connections.
The Antikythera Wreck: A Numismatic Approach
The Ukrainian Numismatic Annual
The paper examines the coins found inside the Antikythera wreck. The wreck of Antikythera was discovered by chance by some sponge fishermen in October 1900, in the northern part of the island of Antikythera. The archaeological excavation of the wreck has allowed the recovery of many finds in marble and bronze, with acquisitions of human skeletons related to the crew of the sunken ship, in addition to the famous “Antikythera mechanism”. Various proposals have been made for the chronology of the shipwreck, as well as the port of departure of the ship, which have been based on literary sources or on the chronology of ceramic finds. As far as coins are concerned, it should be remembered that thirty-six silver coins and some forty bronze coins were recovered in 1976, all corroded and covered by encrustations. The separate study of the two classes of materials, those Aegean and those Sicilian allows to deepen the history of the ship shipwrecked to Antikythera. The treasury of silver coina...