Abandon ship! Treasures from ancient shipwrecks come to Oxford

Whether to transport live snails from a Roman governor's estate in Campania to his residence in Egypt, or to move carved marble columns and pulpits to one of the many churches built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (reign AD527-AD565), in the ancient Mediterranean world, the sea was often the quickest route by which to move goods around. But disasters were part of the game, and not every ship reached its destination.
A selection of 200 objects plucked from the waters around Sicily, which is