INSTITUTE OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY - Bodrum, Turkey

Our Bodrum Headquarters is the center for INA research in Turkey. The complex is formed of various buildings, and is still growing!.

In the main building (see picture) are the offices of some of the INA staff members who work year-round in Bodrum, especially the most important contact: Marion! This building was made possible thanks to the generosity of John H. Baird, Charles W. Consolvo, Gregory M. Cook, Dona and Bob Dales, Barbara and Claude Duthuit, Danielle J. Feeney, Nixon Griffis, Harry C. Kahn II, Jean R. and Jack Kelley, John David Merwin, Nason Fundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Mary and Richard Rosemberg, Mr. and Mrs. Ray H. Siegfried II and Family and Martin H. Wilcox.

Next to the office building is the dormitory (foreground), which houses volunteers, students, and guests who collaborate or assist with the various INA projects. One wing of the dormitory was made possible by the generosity of Danielle J. Feeney, and the other wing by Marja and Ron Bural and Family, Cynthia and Fred Campbell and Family, Barbara and Claude Duthuit and Jean and Jack Kelley.

Very soon INA will start construction of perhaps the most important part of the Bodrum Headquarters complex, the Library, which is sponsored by an anonymous donor. INA has recently acquired the library of Homer and Dorothy Thompson of Princeton, totaling about 4,000 books and journals on classical archaeology. This will be added to the G. Roger Edwards collection that emphasizes Hellenistic archaeology, and to the libraries devoted to underwater archaeology and ancient seafaring willed to INA by Peter Throckmorton and given by Donald G. Geddes III. This library will aid in the publication, not only of INA's work in Turkey, but also of its excavation at Mombasa, Kenya, of the 17th-century Portuguese ship "Santo Antonio de Tanna", built in Goa.

Research continues all year in Bodrum -especially in the laboratories- where conservation, drawing, photographing, and cataloguing materials from the excavations at Uluburun, Selimiye, and Serçe Limani take the energies and talents of both INA staff and skilled volunteers. Time is also needed to maintain INA's research vessel VIRAZON and all of the diving and survey equipment that is used mostly during summers and autumns.