REITIA Surveying Underwater Archaeology

South of Crotone, four miles far from Capo Colonna, three headlands are strechted out towards the Ionian see, one of them being the ancient Promontorium Japigium, later called Capo Cimiti. On its rocks, just close to the sea, remnants of an ancient residential villa of the imperial age, spoiled by the action of the nature and human race. In the sea, on a shallow sandy bottom (4-6 meters), remnants of five marble columns (doric style), found out in 1961 by the writer and diver Gianni Roghi. The columns (of the “Caristio” marble kind, coming from Eubea), around 9 meters long, lie on a confused bottom, creating a three-dimensional N/N-East oriented aggregation.