Marble Capitals in the Corinthian styleas well as an architrave about 6 meters long, which was probably intended for the construction of a public building, such as a temple or a theater, were hidden in shipwreck which was submerged for 1800 years at its bottom Eastern Mediterranean and which was recently identified by the Israel Antiquities Service, according to the Times of Israel. At the signal of a diver, agency staff conducted a preliminary investigation into the remains of a merchant ship that sank off the coast of the Beit Yanai community north of the city of Netanya, carrying 200 tons of cargo.

The shipment came either from the Aegean or the Black Sea and was destined for the Gaza Strip or Alexandria, Egypt. “We have known about the existence of the wreck and its cargo for a long time,” Kobi Sarvit, director of the Israeli Marine Antiquities Service, wrote on the social network. “But we did not know its exact location, as it was covered with sand. This was probably revealed after recent storms in the area.”

According to Sarvit, the finds are characteristic of stately public buildings of the period, and their partial carvings indicate that the final processing of architectural elements was not carried out at their place of origin, but was completed near the place where the buildings were built. .