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A fragment of a life-sized statue of a person found at the site of the Roman-era shipwreck. Credit: Marine Archaeology Unit, Israel Antiquities Authority
Posted on 05/17/2016 2:45:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
One civilization's trash is another civilization's treasure. A ship in Israel's Caesarea Harbor was filled with bronze statues headed for recycling when it sank about 1,600 years ago. Now, thanks to a chance discovery by a pair of divers, archaeologists have salvaged a haul of statuary fragments, figurines and coins from the seafloor.
The coins found in the wreckage date to the mid-300s A.D. Some show Constantine, who ruled the Western Roman Empire from A.D. 312-324, and who unified the Eastern and Western Roman Empire in A.D. 324; he ruled both until his death in A.D. 337. Other coins show one of Constantine's primary rivals, the Eastern Roman Emperor Licinius, who was defeated by Constantine in A.D. 324...
IAA divers found fragments of life-size bronze statues and a bronze lamp bearing the likeness of Sol, the sun god. They found a figurine of Luna, the moon goddess, and a bronze statue of a whale. There was a bronze faucet shaped like a boar with a swan on its head, and a lamp shaped like the head of a slave from Africa...
The ship appears to have hit stormy weather at the harbor entrance, drifting until it smashed against the seawall and sank. Archaeologists found the ship's iron anchors, which seem to have been hoisted into the sea in an attempt to stop the ship from drifting. They were broken by the wind and waves.
The ship wrecked during a key time in Roman history, Sharvit and Planer said. In A.D. 313, Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan, making Christianity legal to practice and returning confiscated property to Christians who had been persecuted. Constantine would later support the early Christian church financially and politically...
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A fragment of a life-sized statue of a person found at the site of the Roman-era shipwreck. Credit: Marine Archaeology Unit, Israel Antiquities Authority
very cool
The roots of the Statue of Liberty...
“”A ship in Israel’s Caesarea Harbor was filled with bronze statues headed for recycling when it sank about 1,600 years ago””
How did anyone determine it was headed for recycling?
Can we recycle that?????
Beautiful!
Hi.
“How did anyone determine it was headed for recycling?”
New emperor new statues, new gods, etc.
5.56mm
Another article same subject: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a20898/ancient-roman-shipwreck-coins-bronze-statues-discovered/
Moon goddess? Mohammed’s a tranny?
So are the Taliban and other Islamonazis merely “recycling” ancient Buddhist statues?
“”New emperor new statues, new gods, etc.””
Does that mean we get to recycle our OLD EMPEROR? Is there any set time? Can we do it now? Is there a ship available?
Even the Soylent Corporation would reject that. I hope.
Statues were an industry during that period. They were even modular with customers being able to select limbs, torso, head, etc., and the craftsmen assembling and casting them.
Bronze was valuable, so it was recycled into new statues.
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