The first discovered hull plank emerges from the sandy bottom of Pabuç Burnu. (Photo by S. Matthews)
Robin Piercy excavates the plank.(Photo by S. Matthews)
A tenon mortise is visible along one edge of the plank. (Photo by S. Matthews)
Asaf Oron and Liz Greene raise the first plank in its purpose-built crate. (Photo by S. Matthews)
A second hull fragment is uncovered. (Photo by S. Matthews)
A "square" peg remains in its hexagonal hole in the newly found plank. (Photo by S. Matthews)
Don Frey and Murat Tilev videorecord the hull remains. (Photo by S. Matthews)
Robin and Feyyaz Subay prepare one of the planks for raising. (Photo by S. Matthews)
Robin inflates the lift bag (left) and carefully guides the hull plank in its crate up to the surface (right). (Photos by S. Matthews)
Removal of the third plank revealed another fragment beneath it. This had to be left in situ until the 2003 campaign. (Photo by M. Polzer)
Evren Türkmenoğlu discovers the first new hull fragment in 2003. (Photo by M. Polzer)
The final hull fragment was uncovered slightly deeper that the other pieces.(Photo by M. Polzer)
The team found several other small wood fragments, but none proved to be subtantial. (Photo by M. Polzer)
Telltale tetrahedral notches and oblique ligature holes indicate that the planks were laced together. (Photo by M. Polzer)
The ligature holes are drilled through the notches to the outboard corner of the plank's edge. (Photo by M. Polzer)
Three of the seven wooden ligature pegs preserved on this plank. (Photo by M. Polzer)
One of the wooden ligature pegs removed from a plank. (Photo by M. Polzer)
Much of the original pitch coating the inboard surface of the hull is still visible on the planks. (Photo by M. Polzer)
An alignment dowel sits snuggly still within its hole. (Photo by M. Polzer)
A plank fragment with one of its alignment dowels preserved. Note that the dowel's hole penetrates the outboard surface of the plank. (Photo by M. Polzer)
Edge alignment dowel holes on another plank. (Photo by M. Polzer)
Edge dowel holes penetrate the inboard surface of this plank. (Photo by M. Polzer)
A well-preserved mortise. (Photo by M. Polzer)
Another mortise, but this time with its tenon preserved. (Photo by M. Polzer)
Locations of the alignment tenon mortises. (M. Polzer)
Treenail and lashing holes mark thelocation of a frame. (Photo by M. Polzer)
Frame lashing holes on another plank,viewed from the outboard side. (Photo byM. Polzer)
Two rectangular holes within agroove on one of the planks.(Photo by D. Frey)
A large rectangular opening in oneof the planks, perhaps originallyaccomodating a through-beam.(Photo by M. Polzer)
Three scarfs preserved among the hull fragments. (M. Polzer)
The hood end of a plank, which originally joined one of the hull's endposts. (Photo by M. Polzer)
The Pabuç Burnu hull planking fragments. (Drawing by M. Polzer)
Mark Polzer draws one of the hull planks. (Photo by V. Kaya)
Mark photorecords details of the hull planks during his study and documentation of the remains in Bodrum. (Photo by V. Kaya)
Asaf Oron and Vokan Kaya photograph one ofthe planking fragments. The photographswere later used to make a photomosaic re-construction of each plank. (Photo by M.Polzer)
Conservator Asaf Oron removes one of the ligature pegs from a plank for wood identification analysis. (Photo by M. Polzer)
The new PEG tank built by Robin Piercy for the conservation treatment of the wooden hull remains. (Photo by A. Oron)
Mark points out some of the planking features to Frederick van Doorninck in the Nixon Griffis Conservation Laboratory. (Photo by V. Kaya)
Mark and Yaacov Kahanov compare the Pabuç Burnu hull remains to other laced hulls found in the Mediterranean, including the Ma'agan Mikhael shipwreck which Yaacov excavated in Israel. (Photo by A. Catsambis)