Posted on 05/08/2006 6:04:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
ATHENS, Greece - A Greek fisherman has handed over to authorities a large section of an ancient bronze statue brought up in his nets in the Aegean Sea, officials said on Monday.
The male torso was located last week near the eastern Aegean island of Kalymnos, the Culture Ministry said in an announcement.
The one-meter (3-foot) high find belonged to a statue of a horseback soldier, and would have been part of the cargo of an ancient ship that sank in the area. It was taken to Athens to be cleaned and dated.
Together with the torso, the fisherman brought up two small bronze pieces believed to belong to the statue, and a wine-jar from the ancient city of Knidos — in what is now Turkey — dating from the first century B.C, the ministry said.
The seas around Kalymnos are rich in ancient wrecks and have yielded several impressive finds in recent years, including a large female statue now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The fisherman who netted it in 1995 earned a euro440,000 (US$558,000) reward from the Culture Ministry.
Other scattered pieces of bronze statues found in the area include a head, legs and arms, but it is unclear whether these could match the horseman's torso.
An undated picture provided by the Greek Culture Ministry on Monday, May 8, 2006 shows the torso from an ancient statue of a horseback soldier fished out of the Aegean Sea last week. The 1-meter (3-foot) fragment was found by a fisherman off the island of Kalymnos and handed over to authorities. (AP Photo/Culture Ministry)
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I flipped a U.S. nickel over the side of the ferry boat there back in 1996.
WOW!
I wonder how a heavy object got into a fishing net.
Large artefacts sometimes stick out of the sea-bodem and catch the nets. Either the nets break, or the object is catched. Anyway, for half a million per statue I would almost be inclined to throw out a few nets myself.
I still haven't heard from anyone from all the bottles (with a note in them) I threw overboard in the Pacific Ocean in the early '60's.
You should have used plastic!
Riiight.
I do have a small late 50's early 60's radio, tubes and all, that has a bakelite case. Still works too.
Oh right. Plastic is a new invention.
Im post-plastic myself.
In fact, it sounds like a nice neutral PC dating system!
Instead of BC, we can use BP! Before plastic!
LOL. Apparently you never saw the movie "Mrs Robinson" where Dustin Hoffman (as a young man) was advised that the future was in plastics...and, no-one knew what plastic was. BTW, Simon & Garfunkle had a hit song after the same movie, "Mrs Robinson"
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