The importance of this find is that it is the first Late Antiquity wreck discovered with a cargo of marble presumably from the nearby marble quarries of the Marmara Island.
History:
Wreckage: AD 500 - 600 (C6th AD)
References:
; http://www.nautarch.org/sites.htm INA Quarterly 26 No. 3 (1999), 18-23
Finds:
At least 17 columns, some broken, presumably from Proconnesus.