Focus on Victorious Youth and discuss the Discovery.
Many underwater bronzes have been discovered along the Aegean and Mediterranean coast; in 1900 sponge divers found the Antikythera Youth and the portrait head of a Stoic, at Antikythera, the standing Poseidon of Cape Artemision in 1926, and various bronzes until 1999.  The sculpture was found in the summer of 1964 in the sea off Fano on the Adriatic coast of Italy, snagged in the nets of an Italian fishing trawler, the Ferri Ferruccio. Italian art dealers paid the fishermen $5,600 USD for it. The Getty Museum bought it from German art dealer Herman Heinz Herzer for almost $4M USD in 1977. The unearthing of classical Greek and Roman sculptures are discovered all around the Mediterranean Sea; both empires reached far to the Iberian Peninsula, areas on Africa's northern coast, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and modern-day Europe.  In further analyzing the Getty Bronze before conservation, a thick layer of incrustation covers the statue suggesting its location predates medieval or late Venetian ships transporting the object as spoils of war or recycling it for scrap metal.The precise location of the shipwreck, which preserved this object from being melted down like all but a tiny fraction of Greek bronzes, has not been established; it seems most likely that a Roman ship carrying looted objects was on its way to Italy when it foundered. The statue has been roughly broken off its former base, breaking away at the ankles.  The clay core inside might give further detail to where and when it was made.
Poseidon of Cape Artemision Antikythera Youth Getty Museum Roman Italy Adriatic coast Fano Stoic shipwreck