Four lead ingots were found as part of a shipwreck cargo in the southern anchorage of Caesarea in Israel. Analysis of the lead and a study of the markings incised on three of them are presented here for the first time. Four Cypro-Minoan signs are identified and paralleled with signs found on Late Cypriot artefacts. Lead isotope analysis indicates that the lead originated in Sardinia. Such an origin was indicated by earlier analyses of lead ingots from other cargoes along the Carmel coast, as well as by additional lead objects from Cyprus and other regions around the eastern Mediterranean. The Caesarea ingots, together with the latter, highlight the role of the Cypriots in the Mediterranean Late Bronze Age metal trade, and date their involvement to the 13th–early 12th century BCE. Rather than a specific connection between Cyprus and Sardinia at this time, as previously reconstructed, a broader commercial network and heightened involvement of the Cypriots in regional and supra-regional exchange in the eastern Mediterranean are suggested.

在以色列凯撒利亚南部锚地发现了四块铅锭，作为沉船货物的一部分。此处首次介绍了对铅的分析和对其中三个切割标记的研究。四个塞浦路斯-米诺斯标志被确定并与在塞浦路斯晚期手工艺品上发现的标志平行。铅同位素分析表明，铅起源于撒丁岛。早先对卡梅尔海岸其他货物中铅锭的分析，以及来自塞浦路斯和地中海东部其他地区的其他铅物品的分析表明了这种来源。凯撒利亚铸锭与后者一起突出了塞浦路斯人在地中海晚期青铜时代金属贸易中的作用，并将他们的参与追溯到公元前 13 世纪至 12 世纪初。