One of many sites which probably gave rise to the legend of Atlantis sinking into the sea.
I don’t think you would find that many artifacts if the city had been evacuated due to a gradual inundation by rising waters. Probably a seismic event like the one that sank Port Royal in Jamaica in 1692.
I agree. It’s interesting that Homer includes a description of a surge of water chasing one of the Trojan War heroes up a river valley, and Thucydides describes the loss of an Athenian garrison and its fortress, built on a rocky isle (still there) in the Gulf of Corinth due to a tsunami. Poseidon, Greek deity of the seas, was also Earthshaker because the cause and effect was something of which the ancient Greeks were aware, even though they didn’t understand the actual mechanics of the phenom.
Excellent observation.