‘Once-in-a-lifetime discovery’: two Roman-era statues found in Israel during rail expansion
Two Roman-era marble statues, about 1,700 years old, were discovered during an Israel Antiquities Authority excavation near Binyamina as part of the Coastal Railway expansion project.
Depicting figures from classical antiquity, the statues were discovered in the collecting basin of an ancient winepress. One statue preserves a Greek inscription identifying the name “Lycurgus.”
Researchers believe the statues once adorned a luxurious villa belonging to one of Caesarea’s wealthy residents and described the find as a “once-in-a-lifetime discovery.”
The statues will be unveiled to the public for the first time at an archaeological conference to be held on June 18 at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv.
Michal Wasserman is a KAN 11 News correspondent.
