2022/06/22

Colossal Marble Hercules Head Recovered from Antikythera Shipwreck Site Not Just a Win for Art History

“The wreck is not just important to art historians or to the reconstruction of ancient trade routes, but also to our understanding of the travelers, merchants, and sailors of the ancient Mediterranean.”
– Historian Sarah E. Bond, on the Antikythera Shipwreck site off the coast of Greece, where a colossal marble Hercules head was recently recovered. Beyond describing how the find completed a headless Hercules statue in Athens, Bond notes that teeth and bones found at the site “are a fundamental part of the ancient tale told by the wreckage.”
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