A joint team from the European Institute for Underwater Archaeology (IEASM) and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities found the artifact in the remains of a palace on the now-submerged island of Antirhodos, marking the first time a signet ring featuring the image of the lighthouse has been found, the IEASM team said in a statement.
"The discovery of the ring-signet is even more important as it has been excavated in the legendary palace of the Island of Antirhodos, that once was a centre of power," Franck Goddio, president of IEASM, said in the emailed statement.
While the lighthouse was modified over time, it would have had a statue, possibly of Zeus, at the top holding an oil lamp that helped guide mariners.
The newly discovered bronze signet ring has an image depicting the Lighthouse of Alexandria. (Image credit: Christoph Gerigk©Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation)Even though the ring's engraving is somewhat worn, it likely depicts the lighthouse, said Doris Behrens-Abouseif, a professor emeritus of history of art and archaeology at the University of London who has written about the lighthouse but was not part of the research team.
Behrens-Abouseif added that she wasn't familiar enough with rings from Alexandria to comment on whether this is the only ring that contains this image.
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Margaret Miles, a professor emeritus of art history and classics at the University of California, Irvine, also noticed the possible plume of smoke. Miles noted in an email that this "ring could have been used as a signet ring by a merchant from Alexandria who used the profile of the [lighthouse] to signal his location in Alexandria. The lighthouse was famous, so it became a symbol of the city."
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