The conversation about that purported bust of Caesar continues in the comments at Mary Beard's blog ... in one of them, Mary Jane alerts us to a video at France 3 on the discovery which shows the statue from a few more angles -- from certain angles, and in certain light (especially under water, covered in grime) the bust does look 'caesar-like' to a certain extent, but I'm still not convinced. I want to see a clean profile photo.
What's more interesting than this narrow focus on the identity of but one bust, however, is the apparent jumble of antiquities from several periods that seem to be all in one area. Again, I suggest (as I did at MB's blog), that there might be some connection of this deposit to the pontoon bridge which we know was at Arelate. Because of the amount of stuff, though, I'm wondering if much of it was tossed in later times during some Saracen invasion vel simm. ...
What's more interesting than this narrow focus on the identity of but one bust, however, is the apparent jumble of antiquities from several periods that seem to be all in one area. Again, I suggest (as I did at MB's blog), that there might be some connection of this deposit to the pontoon bridge which we know was at Arelate. Because of the amount of stuff, though, I'm wondering if much of it was tossed in later times during some Saracen invasion vel simm. ...