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The lost cargos of Torre Santa Sabina and east-west routes in the ancient Mediterranean  (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rita Auriemma. Francesca Silvestrelli. Antonella Antonazzo. Carlo De Mitri. Maria Teresa Giannotta. Federica Mauro. Florinda Notarstefano.

Torre Santa Sabina is a bay along the Apulian coast of Italy, near Brindisi (Roman Brundisium). 11,000 archaeological items, dating from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity and the medieval period, have been recovered from the sea bottom since the  first underwater investigations in the 1970s. Stratigraphical excavations have been carried out since 2007 by the University of Salento, with the aim of understanding the sequence of layers traditionally related to the so-called "harbor dump". These...