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The North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune
North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska
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Greek sponge-fishers discovered a sunken Roman ship off Machia, Tunisia, loaded with ancient artifacts from the sack of Athens. French authorities recovered the cargo, including a Hermes statue by Boethos, matching Lucian's description.
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An astonishing discovery has been made by some Greek sponge-fishers at Machia 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 Hermes bearing the name of Boethos. The whole of it has now been 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 with its precious freight, including, says Lucian, a picture by Zeuxis.
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the whole of it has now been recovered and is being examined and classified.
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An astonishing discovery has been made by some Greek sponge-fishers at Machia 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 Hermes bearing the name of Boethos. 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 with its precious freight, including, says Lucian, a picture by Zeuxis.