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| Carved Stone Found Buried in Yard. Source: See link below. |
The homeowners were doing routine yard work when they noticed the weathered stone half-buried in vegetation. Carved into its surface was a Latin inscription that clearly did not belong in a Louisiana backyard. They contacted scholars at Tulane University, where classicist Susann Lusnia examined the find and, according to an Associated Press account, identified the slab as a Roman funerary marker... The inscription commemorated a man named Sextus Congenius Verus, whom Lusnia determined was a first-century Roman sailor and soldier...
Lusnia’s identification did not rest on the inscription alone. She matched the New Orleans slab to a fragment already documented in an early‑20th‑century Latin source, a scholarly catalog of Roman inscriptions that had recorded the text decades before the Second World War. That match gave the find an unusual degree of academic certainty: the stone was not a replica or a curiosity shop knockoff but a genuine artifact that had been recorded, lost, and then rediscovered far from its origin...
The answer traces back to the Second World War and a U.S. soldier named Charles Paddock Jr. According to reporting that pieced together the artifact’s chain of custody...
It is always fun to think about how things got to where they are found, especially when they are found where they would not be expected to be found. It happens all the time. I have finds that I wonder about how they got there. You usually will never figure it out, but as I said just yesterday, old things are carried around all the time and sometimes lost where you'd least expect to find them.
I think of some of the modern bullion coins I've found on beaches and other out of the way places. You can only wonder how they got there. In one case somebody suggested they were used in drug transactions. I guess that is a possibility.
How you decide who has a right to keep certain items, like the one discussed in the article, is another matter. Who is the rightful owner. I don't doubt that someone will claim it. Maybe a government or government agency or someone else in the chain of possession. It is sometimes hard to determine and can result in court battles. We've seen enough of those.
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From Sedwick and Associates...
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I recently got word that a 17th century cross was found in recent renourishment sand near Jupiter.
I don't know yet if I'll be able to show that one or not.
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