Disc-Like Copper Ingots Found in Ancient Shipwreck at Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast Similar to Gelidonya, Uluburun Shipwrecks of Mediterranean Turkey

Archaeology in Bulgaria ^ | April 18, 2020 | Ivan Dikov [ouch!]

[SunkenCiv]

A set of ancient copper ingots shaped as discs have been found in a shipwreck near a Black Sea cape in Southeast Bulgaria shedding light on the maritime trade of the Ancient Thracians during the Late Bronze Age (second half of the 2nd millennium BC) as they are analogous to copper ingots found in two famous ancient shipwrecks on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, at Gelidonya and Uluburun.

The disc-like Late Bronze Age copper ingots in question have been discovered inside a Late Bronze Age shipwreck near Bulgaria's Maslen Nos, i.e. "Oily Cape", alongside other artifacts.

Their discovery has been announced the Regional Museum of History in the Black Sea city of Burgas in a release on a public lecture on it given by archaeologist Miroslav Klasnakov.

The Late Bronze Age copper ingots were part of the load carried by an ancient ship whose wreck has been found near Bulgaria's Maslen Nos cape, close to the town of Primorsko, Burgas District.

The ancient copper ingots in question differ from Bronze Age copper ingots discovered in Bulgaria's interior, and, instead, are similar to copper ingots discovered in far more famous shipwrecks on the coast of Southern Anatolia, Turkey, at the Gelidonya Cape and the Uluburun Cape...

"Analogous to similar finds from explored shipwrecks at the capes of Gelidonya and Uluburun in Turkey, the "copper cakes" from the Bulgarian Black Sea coast are also dated to the Late Bronze Age," Klasnakov was cited as saying...

He points out that the ancient copper ingots found at Maslen Nos convey information about the maritime trade contacts between the Ancient Thracian tribes, which inhabited the region of the Strandzha Mountain in today's Southeast Bulgaria and Northeast European Turkey.

[SunkenCiv]

A map showing the locations of the Uluburun and Gelidonya shipwrecks in Turkey and the Maslen Nos shipwreck in Bulgaria - disc-shaped Late Bronze Age copper ingots have been discovered at all three places. Map: BAS Library

[SunkenCiv]

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KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; bronzeage; bulgaria; gelidonya; godsgravesglyphs; maslennos; navigation; uluburun

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[Scrambler Bob]

It’s copper.

They were fighting Corona germs.

[BEJ]

Copper cakes? MMmmm... someone’s Birthday?

[datura]

Balance weights for measurement or were they trading in copper?

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Neat article. Thanks!

[SunkenCiv]

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[17th Miss Regt]

Early CDs?

[SunkenCiv]

Good question, there's nothing I saw (maybe I missed it) about the weight or width of the disks, but my best guess is, trading in copper.

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[SunkenCiv]

I suggest they search for ancient skulls with no teeth left. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

I combined the Gelidonya and Uluburun keyword results, wiped duplicates, sorted chrono. WTH would you do without me?

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[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, one of them has Keith Richards' first recordings.

[Chainmail]

Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin: often used for armor and weapons which is why they call it the “Bronze Age”.

[elbook]

Disc shape makes it easy to see that the interior of the metal ingot isnt all slag (a ripoff).

Copper metal was a valuable commodity and thus you are greatly stung if you got ripped off.

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[a fool in paradise]

Pogs?

[BEJ]

:-)

[Salamander]

Frisbees.