Shipwreck Cargoes in the Balearic Islands: the Hellenistic Reliefware as Indicator of Maritime Trades in the Western Mediterranean.

Year 2021, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 126 - 134, 15.06.2021

Paola Puppo

https://doi.org/10.30897/ijegeo.793930

Abstract

The wreck of St. Jordi (near the island of Majorca in the Balearic Islands) documents in the hold the presence of a bowl signed by the potter Lapius, active in central Italy in the II century BC. The wreck of St Jordi, left from a port of the Ionian (Pergamo, Rhodes?), can have stopped in the port of Ostia, depositing rhodian wine amphorae and loading black gloss ware, and other materials, in addition to Italo - Megarian ware, directed to the Iberian Peninsula. In his cabotage, the ship should have coasted the Balearic Islands, and then from Ebusus (Ibiza) to the port of Cartagena in which to download the content of the cargo hold. But the journey of the ship has been arrested in front of Majorca after a terrible storm that has wrecked the ship with its cargo before being able to arrive in the harbor. Another maritime itinerary could have been from the emporion of Delos with a stop in a port of Apulian, through the strait of Messina, and then to reach the port of Ostia, from where to leave again crossing the channel north Sardinian near the Spargi island and then to head towards the Balearic Islands, transporting, among other goods, Hellenistic relief ware of Ephesian production (from the Monogram workshop), as prove the megarian ware found in the Cales Coves in Menorca and the four bowls in the graves of the necropolis of Puig des Molins in Ibiza.

Keywords

Wreck, Balearic Islands, italomegarian ware, emporion, ephesian production

References

• Reference1 Dr Hakan Oniz is Associate Professor, is graduated from the department of Art History and Archaeology of Eastern Mediterranean University and did finish his master and PhD on Underwater Archaeology at Selcuk University of Konya-Turkey. He is one of the establishers and first coordinator of UNESCO UniTwin Underwater Archaeology Network between 2012 and 2015. .
• Reference 2 Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir; Chair of the Division of Medieval Archaeology and the Director of the Archaeological Center of Western Anatolia (EKVAM). Phone: +90.539.577 07 33. Address: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Arkeoloji Bölümü, Tınaztepe/Kaynaklar Yerleşkesi, Buca, TR-35160 Izmir, Turkey.