Preliminary communication
The fiftieth anniversary of work at the underwater site at Gnalić (1967-2017)
Irena Radić Rossi
orcid.org/0000-0002-5680-9066
; Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za arheologiju, Zadar, Hrvatska
Katarina Batur
orcid.org/0000-0003-3081-5705
; Sveučilište u Zadru, Odjel za arheologiju, Zadar, Hrvatska
Abstract
Underwater archaeological site at the islet of Gnalić was first recorded in the scholarly literature in 1967, when the exact location of the shipwreck was finally determined. The local population had known about this site back in the early 1960s. Sofija Petricioli, in her paper Ten years of work at the hydroarchaeological site at Gnalić, published in 1981, complained that the site was definitely forsaken, “that nobody controlled any longer if that place was looted and nobody showed any interest to fully explore this valuable site”. In 2012, after seven years of constant attempts to awake interest in competent institutions, limited funding was approved, enabling the first research campaign which proved that this site met all the requirements for a systematic rescue research. By the year 2017, archival research had confirmed the identification of the ship that was suggested back in the early 1970s by Astone Gasparetto, and a number of documents helped in reconstruction of a complex historical story. Furthermore underwater research that has been conducted by the University of Zadar with a number of associates had proven that it was the starboard side of the ship whose position promised many new interesting discoveries.
Keywords
Gnalić; Gagliana grossa, shipwreck; 16th century; underwater research; archival research
Hrčak ID:
237172
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Publication date:
21.4.2020.
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