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Roman inscriptions on two of the three columns referring to the consulates of Lateranus
and Rufinus (A.D. 197) and Severus and Victorinus (A.D. 200), and published the first
scholarly report of the discoveries. 67 Additional discoveries were made between April 30
and May 3, 1915, when the Forcellini Company from Milan dredged the seafloor for
rocks and boulders. 68 At that time a new dock was under construction in the harbor of
Croton, and Forcellini Engineering won the bid to supply the building material necessary
for its foundations. 69 In only a few days, as Paolo Orsi wrote, “the new discoveries
increased almost tenfold” 70 the number of marble elements raised since 1908, a concise
description that gives a good idea of the quantity of artifacts the Forcellinis raised from
the seafloor. The marble items were unloaded at the dock of Croton, as seen in an old
photograph in which 13 rectangular blocks, ten column shafts, and two pedestals are
visible. Additional artifacts are presumably hidden beneath the pile (Fig. 17).
Fig. 17. Period photograph showing the artifacts raised from Punta Scifo A, unloaded on
the dock of Croton. Marble blocks, column shafts, and statue pedestals are visible.
(Photo after Paoletti 1994, 529, fig. 69).
67 Orsi 1911, 118-24.
68 Orsi 1911, 123.
69 Severino 1988, 103.
70 Original report May 15, 1915, 1. (Appendix 2).
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