Thanks to the collaboration with the Regional Archaeological Museum “ L. Bernabò Brea” of Lipari, a new study of the cargoes of three Aeolian shipwrecks, Filicudi F, Secca di Capistello (end of the 4th – early 3rd century BC) and Filicudi A (first half of the 2nd century BC) is being conducted.

The shipwrecks, whose area of origin is unknown, document the trade of goods and containers in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea over different periods. The cargoes of the shipwrecks have been drawn, photographed and the stamped amphorae have been sampled for the first time to carry out mineralogical analyses, aimed at determining their origins through the comparison with known production sites.

The archaeological data, together with the epigraphic and archaeometrical ones, will allow a new reading of the story of these important shipwrecks and the gathering of new information about the economic history of the southern Tyrrhenian Sea.