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Fig. 10: Çatı kiremitlerini belgeleme çalışması.
Fig. 10: Roof tile documentation.

All of the tiles found intact are 0.50 m x 0.25 m in size. both sides. In the meantime, we believe that these tiles
It is possible to trace these tiles by their size and shape. belonged to a sunken ship loaded with tile that stroke
The size of the tiles that were found in-situ in the dome the rocks rather than to a 15th century structure on the
of one of the rooms of the madrasah in front of the Ilyas island, based on the assemblage of tiles found piled up
Bey mosque, built in 1404 in Miletos by Menteşeoğul- on top of each other (Fig. 13-15).
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ları, are close to our samples. With a length of 0.50 m, perhaps the most important group of artifacts iden-
they measure 0.30 m wide on one side, and 0.26 m wide tified during the survey are the raw cyclopean marble
on another. blocks, consisting of 18 pieces (Fig. 16-19). They are
Another example to these roof tiles with a similar di- encrusted with layers of seashells, sea urchins and ship-
mension was found in Enez. This structure was used as a worms. They were not arranged in any particular order,
small Byzantine chapel, but after the conquest of Enez, it and some were evenly cut.
was converted into a türbe (shrine) for Has Yunus Bey. Since they were found together and irrelevantly, they
The structure is dated before 1456 when Enez was con- give off the impression that they spilled off a ship. It’s
quered. The tiles in the building are 0.51 m long. They known that, especially in the busy construction busi-
measure 0.30 m wide on one side, and 0.26 m wide on nesses of Istanbul, prokonnesos marble was usually
another. It is believed that similar measurements were preferred. Sailors trailed the southern shores of Marma-
used throughout the 15th century . It is possible to sug- ra sea after crossing the Çanakkale Strait in search of
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gest that our samples belong to the 15th century, as in the protection from the strength of the southwesterly lodos
above examples, although they are of the same width on winds.

15 ÖZYİĞİT 1990, 171, 172.
16 Based on the stacked tiles seen in Fig 13-15, we are of the opinion that these artifacts belong to a shipwreck. However, we have
observed that tiles from this shipwreck were scattered around the island. Apart from that, we must take into account that the shipwreck
may have been destroyed since diving near the island is not prohibited, and the shipwreck is within the hunting area for fishermen and
harpooners.
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