{"id":1467000,"date":"2022-05-06T17:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467000"},"modified":"2022-05-06T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T21:44:46","slug":"rare-find-woman-picked-up-2000-year-old-roman-artifact-for-35-at-thrift-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rare-find-woman-picked-up-2000-year-old-roman-artifact-for-35-at-thrift-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare Find: Woman Picked Up 2,000 Year Old Roman Artifact For $35 At Thrift Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frare-find-woman-picked-up-2000-year-old-roman-artifact-for-35-at-thrift-store%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1467000&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Roman-bust.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>A 2,000 year old Roman artifact that a Texas woman purchased at a thrift store for only $35 will be sent back to Germany after an investigation into its origins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Back in 2018, Laura Young <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/05\/06\/us\/roman-bust-goodwill-san-antonio-museum.html\"><span>went<\/span><\/a><span> to an Austin, Texas, Goodwill store and picked up a bust of a Roman that cost $34.99. Little did she know it was an ancient artifact that historians believe Allied soldiers took in Germany during World War II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI got it outside in the light,\u201d Young said, reflecting on when she first purchased the statue. \u201cHe had chips to the base. He had clear repairs. He looks old. I\u2019ve been to museums. I\u2019ve seen Roman portrait heads before.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She said that the statue was \u201cpretty dirty\u201d once <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2022\/05\/04\/roman-bust-germany-goodwill-store-texas-restitution\"><span>she<\/span><\/a><span> found it, and had a worker carry the 52-pound bust out to her car.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to historians and researchers, the bust is probably the Roman general Drusus Germanicus or Pompey the Great\u2019s son, and was kept in the villa of a Bavarian king. One theory is that during fighting in Aschaffenburg, Germany, near the end of the war, it was taken from the museum where it was kept.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It will be returned to Bavaria where it will go on display at a museum after negotiations over ownership of the head. However, for the next year, the bust will be able to be seen at the San Antonio Art Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While the investigation into the true nature of the marble bust was ongoing, Young kept the bust in her living room across from the TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt was on a small credenza close to the entryway of our house. Facing the TV. So you could see his reflection in the TV when you\u2019re watching TV,\u201d she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kut.org\/life-arts\/2022-05-04\/so-the-35-sculpture-you-got-at-an-austin-goodwill-was-looted-from-a-museum-during-wwii-now-what\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>,<\/span><span> according to Austin\u2019s NPR station. \u201cEvery time you walk into the kitchen, you pass the head. Every time you walk into the house, he greets you. He\u2019s there. He was a constant presence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>She nicknamed the bust \u201cDennis,\u201d after a character in the TV sitcom \u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt hurt a little bit. It was bittersweet. Like, it\u2019s nice that there\u2019s a resolution to it and that it\u2019s working out for the best,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019ll be a little bittersweet to see him in the museum, but he needs to go home. He wasn\u2019t supposed to be here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Questions still exist about how the bust ended up in a Texas Goodwill, but the going theory is that an American soldier took it with him coming back from Europe, though it might have been difficult to take such a large object back discreetly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This isn\u2019t the first time that Young has picked up something valuable at the thrift store. She previously picked up a Chinese painting worth $63,000 for barely anything.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2,000 year old Roman artifact that a Texas woman purchased at a thrift store for only $35 will be sent back to Germany after an investigation into its origins.Back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1481930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}