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In 2016, an underwater salvage survey was conducted in order to document and map the assemblage of a Late Roman shipwreck north of the northern breakwater of the Caesarea harbor (License No. S-663/2016; map ref. 189600/712439; Fig. 1), following the discovery of ancient bronze artifacts on the seabed by divers Ran Feinstein and Ofer Ra‘anan. The survey was conducted on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, with the support of the OceanGate Foundation of Seattle and the Koret Foundation of San Francisco. It was directed by J. Sharvit and D. Planer (IAA), B. Buxton (University of Rhode Island) and J. Hale (University of Louisville), with the assistance of N. Mišković and the team of Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies (LABUST) of the University of Zagreb, N. Gracias, R. Garcia and M. Carreras from the Computer Vision and Robotics Research Institute (ViCOROB) of the University of Girona, B. Allotta of the University of Florence (ARROW project), S. Ben-Yehuda (drafting and GIS), S. Shalev (metallurgy), H. Sokolov, R. Kool and D.T. Ariel (numismatics; see appendix), L. Kupershmidt (metal laboratory), C. Amit (studio photography), H. Nativ (photography and underwater video), E. Rosen (diving officer), Y. Gorin-Rosen (glass), R. Gersht (art and statuary), P. Gendelman (consultation), Y. Asscher (analytical laboratory) and A. Ganor and the IAA Theft Prevention Unit (divers). Student divers from the US and Europe and local volunteers also participated in the survey.
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