In August 1964, an Italian flagged fishing vessel from Fano, Italy, was out dragging nets in the Adriatic Sea. At one point in this journey the fisherman hauled up something much more significant than fish.  When the nets were pulled up there was what appeared to be a shell-encrusted man and the fishermen were startled at the sight of it.

The captain of the vessel chipped at the figure and heard a metal sound, reassuring the frightened crew members that it was not a dead body. It was, it turns out, an exquisite ancient Greek bronze statue known as the Lysippos of Fano (and in California it is known by its aliases, the Getty Bronze and the Victorious Athlete).