Mosaics from San Marco
 





And behold, it is the rule that, 
when the ground has received seed, 
or the sea a ship, or any dish food or drink, 
and when it happens that what was sown 
or what was launched or what was put in 
is destroyed, they are destroyed, 
but the things that held them remain; 
yet with us it has not been so.

-- 2Esdr 9:34.18