For Y'all Data - Byzantine Shipwreck Off Sicilian Coast
Last May, a diving enthusiast noticed only about objects that appeared to accept only about historic involvement on the seabed only ii metres deep off the coast inward the Portulisse area, inward the Sicilian Municipality of Ispica (RG).
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After retrieving only about of these items as well as recording alongside the GPS the exact place of the discovery, which turned out to survive business office of an ancient shipwreck buried inward the sand, he handed them over to the Guardia di Finanza of Pozzallo. After cataloguing the finds (amphorae as well as pottery), specialists informed the government of Ragusa as well as the R.O.A.N. of Palermo for the direction as well as coordination of activities as well as to inform the Superintendence of the Sea of Palermo.
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Last month, divers from the Guardia di Finanza and the R.O.A.N. carried out an inspection inward the marine expanse confirming what the Council had said. In persuasion of the importance of the discovery, the physical care for for recovering the wreck as well as its cargo volition survive initiated.
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The wreck, says the Department of Cultural Heritage, dates dorsum to the 6th century AD as well as appears to survive a Byzantine send that sank virtually the coast alongside a charge of amphorae scattered over a large sandy area. Investigation operations accept already been planned as well as volition survive launched inward collaboration alongside the submarine squad of the Guardia di Finanza.
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"It is a uncovering of dandy value," says the Councillor for Cultural Heritage of Tusa, "that is added to the many made inward recent years on the Sicilian seabed. H5N1 uncovering that contributes to enriching 1 of the happiest moments inward the history of the island: the Byzantine".
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During the Byzantine period, Sicily had intense contacts alongside Asia Minor as well as peculiarly alongside Constantinople as well as the finding testifies exactly to these commercial relations betwixt East as well as West that volition forthwith survive farther understood.
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The wreck of Marzameni, currently existence excavated past times a articulation Italo-US mission, as well as only about other Byzantine send institute inward Pantano Longarini, Syracuse, even as well as so inward the depots of the Aretus Superintendence, are also business office of this context.
As business office of an understanding inward the physical care for of existence formalized, the newly discovered wreck volition survive investigated as well as studied inward the coming months past times doc Massimo Capulli pursuant to an understanding alongside the University of Udine.
