ARCHEOLOGIA SUBACQUEA LUNGO LA VIA DEL MARMO NEL MEDITERRANEO

In the Imperial Age, in the II and the III century a. C., rich buyers asked to famous oriental workshops for some storied sarcophagus, marble sculptures and relieves that were precious. The most important centers were placed in Greece, in Attic, and in Asia Minor, in Afrodisia and Efeso, where expert artisans worked, under imperial official control, in fabrics that where near caves. Transport was made by naves lapidariae that took on columns, capitals, architectonic friezes, that were carved, semifinished or hardly scabbled, to be completed by local workers or stonecutters in destination places. Courses to Rome, with also every Mediterranean port, instead, are showed by wrecks that were driven to the seabed. These wrecks, that contained stone materials above all (naves lapidariae), are scattered along the seabed of Sicily coasts, in particular in Capo Granitola' sea where we find two wrecks, Camarina wreck along the south coast of Sicily, the wreck that is in Isola delle Correnti, the two wrecks of Marzamemi and then the wrecks of Giardini Naxos and Taormina on east coast of the island.