Charity shop find turns out to be ancient Roman bust probably taken from wartime Germany

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The bust was sold for $34.99 at a Texas charity shop, but it turned out to have been taken from Germany in the chaotic days of the 1940s.

Lynley McAlpine, a postdoctoral curatorial fellow and Roman art specialist at the San Antonio museum, told the Express-News that the bust is likely to be a marble portrait of Sextus Pompey.

The bust made its first official appearance in 1833, when it was listed in the art collection of Bavaria's King Ludwig I.In January 1944, the town was bombed by the allies, and the building housing the collection was seriously damaged.Stephennie Mulder, an art history professor at University of Texas in Austin, told radio station KUT:"We know that many of the objects [in the museum] were either destroyed in the allied bombing campaign or looted afterward.

It resurfaced in the charity shop, where Ms Young found it in 2018, although the shop's owners said they do not know who donated it.

 

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Cant tell if she that Busty frm here

Better call Sothebys ...

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