Location of a sixth-century BC shipwreck (circa 540 to 530 BC) off the south of France on the La Louve rocks at 13 to 16 meters below sea level, where some 180 Etruscan (possibly from Vulci) amphorae (of an estimated original cargo of some 600) and 60 cups and jugs of bucchero and Etrusco-Corinthian pottery have been found. The amphorae were stopped with cork disks and probably contained fish bones and rosin (pitch). Oyster shells may have been another element of the cargo.
See also TRADE.
Historical Dictionary of the Etruscans. Simon K. F. Stoddart.