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For Yous Data - Digging Of Elgin's Shipwrecked Brig Mentor Yields Rider Items, Structure Details


Underwater exploration this September of the historic wreck of "Mentor", a brig which belonged to Lord Elgin too sank off Kythira Island inwards 1802 carrying antiquities of the Acropolis, revealed to a greater extent than information almost the brig's construction, the Ministry of Culture said on Tuesdasy.

Underwater exploration this September of the historic wreck of For You Information - Excavation of Elgin's shipwrecked brig Mentor yields rider items, structure details
Measurements too stamping of the brig' keel [Credit: Hellenic Ministry of Culture/
Underwater Antiquities Ephorate/Alexis Tourtas]
The earthworks was conducted past times the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities too archeologist Dimitris Kourkoumelis.


"The Mentor, which belonged to Lord Elgin, sank during a tempest inwards the St. Nicholas cove inwards southeastern Kythira inwards 1802, piece transporting business office of the antiquities Lord Elgin's squad had removed from the Parthenon, the Acropolis too other Athens monuments," the Ministry of Culture said.

Underwater exploration this September of the historic wreck of For You Information - Excavation of Elgin's shipwrecked brig Mentor yields rider items, structure details
Underwater exploration this September of the historic wreck of For You Information - Excavation of Elgin's shipwrecked brig Mentor yields rider items, structure details
Excavation locomote inwards the expanse of the keel [Credit: Hellenic Ministry of Culture/
Underwater Antiquities Ephorate/Alexis Tourtas]
The underwater exploration took house from September seven to 23, the ministry building said, too focused on the expanse of the stern, to decide how much of it survives. But inwards the 2 x 2 thousand trench the squad dug it did non detect parts of the stern or other pregnant objects. Most appeared to live items belonging to passengers: drinking glass vials, buttons from clothing, a bronze article of furniture knob, Pb bullets, sections of ropes too other small-scale objects.


Another trench, along the well-preserved keel of the ship, revealed novel information on the two-mast ship's construction. Participating archeologist Marine Jaouen of the Departement des Recherches Archeologiques Subaquatiques et Sous-Marines of the French Culture Ministry, an adept on ships too transportation of this era, helped explicate the means the ship was built, manifestly inwards America, the Greek ministry building said.

Underwater exploration this September of the historic wreck of For You Information - Excavation of Elgin's shipwrecked brig Mentor yields rider items, structure details
Part of the brig that was uncovered too studied [Credit: Hellenic Ministry of Culture/
Underwater Antiquities Ephorate/Alexis Tourtas]
Underwater exploration this September of the historic wreck of For You Information - Excavation of Elgin's shipwrecked brig Mentor yields rider items, structure details
Leaded lining inwards the ship's keel expanse [Credit: Hellenic Ministry of Culture/
Underwater Antiquities Ephorate/Alexis Tourtas]


Underwater exploration this September of the historic wreck of For You Information - Excavation of Elgin's shipwrecked brig Mentor yields rider items, structure details
Initial maintenance of the ship's rope remnains [Credit: Hellenic Ministry of Culture/
Underwater Antiquities Ephorate/Alexis Tourtas]
The earthworks too query squad also included several archaeologists too staff from the Byzantine too Christian Museum. Support for the earthworks came shape Peter Maneas, Stathis Trifyllis too Als, an urban nonprofit company.

Source: AMNA [October 24, 2018]


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