This story has been making the rounds lately:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/05/04/roman-bust-germany-goodwill-store-texas-restitutionIt seems that the
bust was looted by an allied soldier in
Germany during WWII, and brought back to the US. It was probably donated to Goodwill when he died. I found this story especially interesting because I used to
work for Goodwill in their online
auctions department. We would comb through all of the donations that came in looking for antiques,
jewelry, art, and other valuables that could fetch a higher
price online. I can attest to the fact that when WWII veterans die, their families often take all of their belongings and dump them at Goodwill without a second thought. I found so many Third Reich artifacts, beautiful pieces of
jewelry, original artwork, guns, etc., that clearly came from a recently deceased veteran's estate and it always blew my mind that people would toss that stuff out so cavalierly.