During the summer of 2005, an international team of 20 INA staff members and graduate students from the Nautical Archaeology Program at Texas A&M University initiated the excavation of a Roman stone carrier wrecked off the Aegean coast of Turkey southwest of Izmir at Kizilburun (“Crimson Cape”). This ship was transporting a single monumental marble column comprised of eight individual drums and what appears to be a Doric capital. In fewer than 12 weeks, the team logged over 1.000 dives to the wreck and raised over 800 artifacts. INA president Donny Hamilton served as the project director, assistant professor Deborah Carlson as the team’s archaeological director, and Ilker Tepekoy as the representative of the Turkish Ministry of Culture.
- Direction: DONALD FREY
- Production: INSTITUTE OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY
