Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1913 — May Recover Antiquities. [ARTICLE]

May Recover Antiquities.

An astonishing discovery has been made by some Greek sponge-fishers at Madhia on the Tunisian coast. Observing a mass of sunken wreckage, they examined it and noticed some statues ’lying among rotting timbers. The French authorities were quickly interested and sent a tug and two torpedo boats to the spot. The sunken vessel proved to be one of about four hundred tons and loaded with an enormous cargo of ancient household goods and statuary, including a Hennes bearing the name of Boethos. The whole of it has now teen recovered and is being examined and classified. Evidently it was a part of the Roman plunder from the sack of Athens, and probably the very ship described by Lucian as having been lost wjth its precious freight, including, says Lucian, a picture by Xeuxis.