Tucked away under a table, there was a marble bust that was intriguing.
It weighed about 50 pounds and cost $34.99.
This was more than Young usually spent at Goodwill, but she followed her instinct and made the purchase.
What happened next was incredible.
Eventually, Sotheby’s confirmed her suspicion that this statue was something special.
While Young had thought that the sculpture looked Roman, she was still shocked to hear the news.
But how did a piece of antiquity such as this make its way across the ocean to Texas?
While scholars are divided on who the bust portrays, they all can agree on its provenance.
He was a lover of the arts and had a large collection of antiquities.
He even constructed a reproduction of a villa fromPompeiiin Aschaffenburg, Germany.
CalledPompeiianum, it once housed this portrait bust, where it remained until World War II.
In 1944, Pompeiianum was bombed by the Allied Forces.
It will remain on display in the museum until May 2023 before returning to Europe.
I liked him, shemused.
I got attached to him in our house, right there in the entryway.
You could see his reflection on the television.
He became part of the house.
