Cape Gelidonya

Gelidonya Lighthouse

Cape Gelidonya (Turkish: Gelidonya Burnu or Taşlık Burnu) near Finike, Turkey was the site of the wreck of a Phoenician merchant ship from about 1200 BC, which sat at about 27 m depth on irregular rocky bottom. It was located in 1954, the excavation by Peter Throckmorton, George F. Bass, and Frédéric Dumas began in 1960 . Among the finds were Mycenaean ceramics and copper and tin ingots.

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