Four Rare Ring-Shaped Artifacts from Antalya and Mediterranean Diver Weights of Antiquity

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dc.authoridDENKER, AHMET/0000-0003-2381-2055|Oniz, Hakan/0000-0002-5682-7117
dc.contributor.authorOniz, Hakan
dc.contributor.authorDenker, Ahmet
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:42:19Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:42:19Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractFour rare discoveries from the coast of Antalya provide evidence that divers were active in the area during the Hellenistic-Roman Periods as has been indicated in many different sites of the Mediterranean basin in the same period. The first discovery was a stone tool found off the ancient Cilicia Region on Alanya-Antalya coastline of Southern Turkey in 2011. The second find was discovered in 2019, off the coast of ancient Lycia region, alongside the shores of the Three-Islands of Kemer-Antalya. This second artifact is a more familiar ring-shaped object made of lead. It is similar to objects found off the coast of Israel and identified as salvage rings. These two objects were found as lone objects, neither associated with a shipwreck nor within a specific context. These were followed by two other ring-shaped objects found in 2021, again off the ancient Lycia region, one in Kas and the other one on the Kekova coastline. Both of these objects are marble weights and akin to the one which had been found on the coast of Caesarea, Israel and named as a salvaging ring in the literature. These two marble rings have been found near shipwrecks. One surmises they were possibly used by divers to retrieve some sunken cargo. All four finds could be examples of diver weights that were used by ancient divers for reaching the desired depths faster for salvage operations or other diving activities such as harvesting sponges and oysters. Artifacts of these sorts found on the seabed are extremely rare. Along the entire 640 km Antalya coastline, over a time span of two decades, these are the only four recovered objects. In searching for the history of these artifacts and their originally intended purposes, a study is conducted with similar objects from different sites of the Mediterranean. This paper concludes with a recent experiment to test whether the artifacts could have been diver weights.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s11457-022-09343-2
dc.identifier.endpage577en_US
dc.identifier.issn1557-2285
dc.identifier.issn1557-2293
dc.identifier.issue4en_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85141373269en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage559en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-022-09343-2
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7238
dc.identifier.volume17en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000878936000001en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Maritime Archaeologyen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectUnderwater Archeologyen_US
dc.subjectAncient Diversen_US
dc.subjectDiver Weightsen_US
dc.subjectSalvaging Ringsen_US
dc.subjectStone Anchorsen_US
dc.titleFour Rare Ring-Shaped Artifacts from Antalya and Mediterranean Diver Weights of Antiquityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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