well as basins, wide-mouthed jars, braziers, baking trays, askoi, pithoi, and common household utensils. Stone anchors were also found 40 meters from the wreck. The anchors consisted of two large boulders with holes bored in them, which likely would have been dropped before the ship sank. Lead ingots used for trade were also found. The merchant ship had a wide variety of tableware and it is speculated that it traded all over the region. During the 1989 to 1992 HIMA excavation, the site produced more than 15,000 pottery sherds and artifacts. They also found many millstones at the site, which are speculated to have been part of the ship's cargo or possibly used as ballast. These artifacts and items were raised from the sea floor and transported to the Spetses Museum, where they will be studied and placed into conservation. Notes Sources Anastasi, P. "Aegean Sea Floor Yields Clues to Early Greek Traders." The New York Times, January 2, 1989. Anzovin, Steven et al. Famous First Facts (International Edition), H. W. Wilson Company, 2000, Enalia Annual 1990, Vol 2 (publ. 1992). HIMA, Athens Wachsmann, Shelley. Seagoing Ships & Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1998. Web Further reading A Brief History of Underwater Archaeology in Greece Hudson, Kenneth et al. The Book of Shipwrecks. Macmillan, 1979, Archaeology of shipwrecks Ancient shipwrecks Shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea