A $34.99 marble bust from a thrift store likely belonged to Roman military leader – and it’s unknown how it ended up in Austin
This undated photo shows a marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store that is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from Germany since World War II.
After purchasing the bust, Young reached out to various auction houses and experts to find out more about the sculpture. Sotheby’s eventually confirmed that the bust was estimated to be about 2,000 years old, and came from ancient Rome.San Antonio Museum of Art postdoctoral fellow Lynley McAlpine.The bust was once kept at Pompejanum, a replica of a Pompeii-style Roman home that was commissioned by King Ludwig I and built in the 1840s.
For about the next 80 years, the bust’s whereabouts were unknown – until Young dug it up at a Goodwill.
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