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A wooden panel that was made famous by the mega-blockbuster Titanic has sold at auction for more than half a million dollars.

Among the items in the Treasures of Planet Hollywood auction, the wood panel that saved the life of Rose DeWitt Boucketer (Kate Winslet) in James Cameron's 1997 romantic epic sold for a whopping $718,750, according to a press release from Heritage Auctions.

While that's just a drop in the bucket compared to the billions the movie itself made, it's worth more than Indiana Jones' whip from 1984's Temple of Doom, which sold for $525,000.

Heritage Auctions notes that while the panel is "often erroneously referred to as a door," it was in fact only "part of the door frame just above the entrance to the first class cabin" from the recreation of the 1912 ship.

"The famous prop caused much controversy among fans, many of whom argued that the floating wooden panel could have supported both Jack and Rose [Leonardo DiCaprio], so his fateful decision to remain in the cold water was an empty gesture," the report notes. "Cameron would later conduct scientific research to prove that this storyline was more than just a convenient narrative device."

Last year's National Geographic special Titanic: 25 Years Later with James Cameron featured an "investigation" into this very question.

"The best way we can imagine is for both of them to kneel on the raft, facing each other, using their body heat together, like they're hugging," says the three-time Oscar winner, as the actors model alternate configurations. At first, the panel has difficulty supporting the pair's weight, with Cameron noting, "This thing is too unstable."

Although the pair eventually found one script in which Jack "could last quite a long time," Cameron, 69, noted that the actors didn't go through a fraction of what Jack and Rose went through in the more than three-hour film to get to this slab. “He could not have foreseen what we know today about hypothermia. … Jack's survival might have come at the cost of her life. In those days, men had a code of chivalry.”

Originally called “unsinkable,” luxury passenger liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage in April 1912, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew.

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