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The various cargo of Gagliana grossa with special emphasis on raw materials for paint production

The finds from the Gnallić shipwreck site include items of ship’s equipment, armament and cargo, including significant evidence on cargo containers. A large percentage of the recovered cargo consisted of more than 5500 glass objects belonging to 60 different forms, including thousands of fragments of glass vessels, flat rounded windowpanes of various sizes, rectangular mirror cast sheets, circular and rectangular finished mirrors, and about 9kg of glass beads. The particularly interesting part of cargo consisted of raw materials used as pigments, medical and cosmetic supplies. The paper presents preliminary results of the identification of raw materials.

Gnalić shipwreck ; cargo ; Renaissance ; colouring materials

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