網にかかった青銅の像

　　ギリシャのKalymnos島付近で漁師が約１ｍほどの青銅の像を引き上げたため、文化庁にすぐに報告（及び提供）をしたそうです。この像は馬に乗る男性で、一緒に引き上げられたアンフォラや他の青銅などから紀元前１世ごろのものと見られています。この地域からは他にも似たような発見が相次いでおり、幾つもの沈没船がこの付近にあることがわかっています。
　　また、１９９５年に引き上げられた銅像は現在アテネ国立博物館に展示されており、文化庁が発見者に報酬として　440,000　euro　支払ったそうです。

ATHENS, Greece – A Greek fisherman has handed over to authorities a large section of an ancient bronze statue brought up in his nets in the Aegean Sea, officials said on Monday.

The male torso was located last week near the eastern Aegean island of Kalymnos, the Culture Ministry said in an announcement.

The one-meter (3-foot) high find belonged to a statue of a horseback soldier, and would have been part of the cargo of an ancient ship that sank in the area. It was taken to Athens to be cleaned and dated.

Together with the torso, the fisherman brought up two small bronze pieces believed to belong to the statue, and a wine-jar from the ancient city of Knidos — in what is now Turkey — dating from the first century B.C, the ministry said.

The seas around Kalymnos are rich in ancient wrecks and have yielded several impressive finds in recent years, including a large female statue now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. The fisherman who netted it in 1995 earned a euro440,000 (US$558,000) reward from the Culture Ministry.

Other scattered pieces of bronze statues found in the area include a head, legs and arms, but it is unclear whether these could match the horseman’s torso.

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