Authors: Asaf Oron1, Gideon Hadas2, Nili Liphschitz3,Georges Bonani4
Abstract:
Two composite anchors of a kind not hitherto identified, each composed of a re-used ashlar block, a wooden shank, two armsand a rope, were discovered recently on the Dead Sea shoreline. Two additional anchor weights of identical type were foundin the same region. The two well-preserved anchors were dated to the Fatimid-Crusader period. The shank and the arms weremade from local tree species: Christ thorn and tamarisk, and both ropes of date-palm.
Afilliations:
1 Institute of Nautical Archaeology, Bodrum, Turkey, asaforo@gmail.com
2 EinGedi, Israel gideonhadas@yahoo.com
3 Institute of Archaeology, The Botanical Laboratories, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel nilili@post.tau.ac.il
4ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, bonani@phys.ethz.ch
For the complete article, published in The International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 2008 vol.37 pp.295–301
