What endures the longest...is it man? marble? The mind? Or the sea?
This is a statue from the the Antikythera ancient shipwreck, only his head that was buried in the sediment of the sea was preserved. The rest of him was gnawed away by saltwater and the sea's bottom creatures.
[more information at: http://www.antikythera-mechanism.gr/events/exhibitions/nam-2012]