Drusus Germanicus is on display at the San Antonio Museum of Art until May.
"Portrait of a man," Roman, late 1st century B.C.-early 1st century A.D., Marble, Lent by the Bavarian Administration of State-Owned Palaces, Gardens and Lakes.– A first-century marble bust found by a Texas woman at a Goodwill in Austin a few years ago is about to head back to Germany.after Laura Young, an antique dealer, discovered that the bust she bought in 2018 for $34.99 was actually a 2,000-year-old, 50-pound piece of history.
Drusus Germanicus, the name of the Roman general who the bust is modeled after, is currently on display at thebut will be returning to Germany in May. The bust dates back to the late 1st century BC to the early 1st century AD. Research revealed that the sculpture was once in a catalog of items from a German museum in the 1920s and 1930s and once belonged to the collection of King Ludwig I of Bavaria.How Germanicus ended up in a Goodwill in Austin is still a mystery but the bust was confirmed to be in a museum collection during World War II in Aschaffenburg, Germany — the same place where a battle between Nazis and the U.S. Army took place.
Young would be the next person to house the 2,000-year-old art before Germanicus temporarily went to SAMA.
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