Sponsored by: AIA-Los Angeles Society, Ahmanson Lecture
Excavating a Shipwrecked Marble Column Destined for the Temple of Apollo at Claros
Dr. Deborah N. Carlson
Professor, Sara W. and George O. Yamini Endowed Family Chair in Nautical Archaeology
President of Institute of Nautical Archaeology
Nautical Program Coordinator
Texas A&M
Between 2005 and 2011, researchers from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University excavated and raised the remains of an ancient ship that was wrecked off the Aegean coast of Turkey at Kızılburun in the first century B.C. This ship was transporting about 60 tons of white marble blocks and architectural elements that originated in the quarries on Proconnesus Island in the Sea of Marmara. Ceramic artifacts and coins help narrow the date of the shipwreck, but the pieces of a single monumental Doric column suggest that the ship was destined for one of the most important oracular sanctuaries in the ancient Mediterranean. Join underwater archaeologist Deborah Carlson as she lays out the evidence to solve this maritime mystery!
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