This article takes into account the biological colonisation of the marble statues of the famous shipwreck of Antikythera, a merchant ship dated to the first century BC and discovered in the 1900 off Point Glyphadia of the Greek Island of Antikythera. In particular, the study of the epilithic bioencrustations and the environmental interpretation of the benthic community were carried out to understand the underwater life of the statues. Bryozoans, serpulids, brachiopods, calcareous demosponges and red algae were the most abundant components of the community. Most of the identified species were sciaphilic and/or indicative of coralligenous and cave habitats, well suited to the dim light environment of the site (depth of 50–64 m, arrangement of the statues in piles or inside crevices or under boulders). The obtained data were useful to hypothesize the relationship of the artefacts with the marine environment. In particular, the state of preservation of the bioencrustations found on the statues and the presence of superimpositions indicated that colonisation episodes had happened in different time lapses, possibly very distant from each other, but within the same benthic environment.

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雅典国家考古博物馆（希腊）保存的 Antikythera 沉船雕像的海底群落形成过程

本文考虑了著名的 Antikythera 沉船大理石雕像的生物殖民化，这是一艘可追溯到公元前一世纪的商船，于 1900 年在希腊 Antikythera 岛的 Point Glyphadia 附近被发现。特别是对石上生物结壳和底栖群落的环境解释进行了研究，以了解雕像的水下生活。苔藓虫、蛇类、腕足类、钙质海绵和红藻是该群落中最丰富的组成部分。大多数确定的物种是嗜水动物和/或指示珊瑚和洞穴栖息地，非常适合该地点的昏暗光线环境（深度为 50-64 m，雕像在桩中或裂缝内或巨石下排列）。获得的数据有助于假设人工制品与海洋环境的关系。特别是，在雕像上发现的生物外壳的保存状态和叠加的存在表明，殖民化事件发生在不同的时间间隔内，可能彼此相距很远，但在相同的底栖环境中。