A Texas woman bought a first-century marble bust for $34.99 at a Goodwill in Austin — no, seriously.
Laura Young, an antiques dealer, bought the Roman bust at a Goodwill on Far West Boulevard in 2018, according toYoung contacted several auction houses and was able to confirm that the sculpture was once in a catalog of items from a German museum in the 1920s and 1930s, KUT reported.How Germanicus’ bust ended up in a Goodwill in Austin is still a mystery.
“So unfortunately in this case, it might have been a U.S. soldier who either looted it himself or purchased it from someone who had looted the object,” Stephennie Mulder, an art history professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told Kut. Young would be the next person to house Germanicus, but now she was in possession of a looted piece of 2,000 year old art.
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