Cape Gelidonya near Finike , Turkey was the site of the wreck of a Phoenician merchant ship from about 1200 BC, which sat at about 27 m depth on irregular rocky bottom. It was located in 1954, the excavation by Peter Throckmorton , George F. Bass , and Frédéric Dumas began in 1960 . Among the finds were Mycenean ceramics and copper and tin ingots.