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and curiously some of the blocks and columns that had been abandoned along the docks
in Croton were subsequently discovered in a church courtyard in Corazzo, at a distance
of ca. 30 km from Croton. 81 Pensabene also visually analyzed small samples of the
marble to identify their provenience and published a catalog with drawings,
measurements, and records of the visible inscriptions. 82 It is thanks to his studies that the
sources of the stone have been identified as Docimium and Proconnesus (Turkey) for the
Punta Scifo A shipwreck, and Carystos (Euboea, Greece) for the Capo Cimiti column
shafts. Pensabene's and Orsi's articles remain the only published analyses of these two
sites.
The Cooperative Aquarius and Alice Freschi’s Excavations (1983-1994)
A third season of research began in 1983, when Michele Mungari, a diver from
Croton, relocated the Punta Scifo A shipwreck and gave its exact position to the
Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici della Calabria. 83 In the summer of the same year,
Alice Freschi, director of the private firm Aquarius, an archaeological contract company
specializing in underwater surveys and archaeological excavations for the Italian Fine
Arts Bureau, carried out an excavation of the navis lapidaria.
The same year Luigi Cantafora, arguably the most experienced diver still active
in Croton, initiated a collaboration with the Calabrian Soprintendenza. He showed all the
ancient sites he had discovered during his long career as a Navy and sport diver to
81 Pensabene 1978a, 107.
82 Pensabene 1978a, 105-18; Pensabene 1978b, 233-4.
83 Freschi 1987, n.1.
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