New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard | New Orleans
The New Orleans couple revealed a grave sign that eliminates the bushes in the garden of their homes, and raised a search for an answer about how the 1.900 -year -old residue ended there and how to return to Italy.
The remarkable discovery was the work of Tulane University anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband Aaron Lorenz. report It was published on Monday by the Journal of Protection Source of New Orleans (PRC).
As the PRC said, after finding the tombstone in March, Santoro and Lorenz said that an inscription carved on it appears in Latin’s language. Santoro contacted the Archaeologist D Ryan Gray, the University of New Orleans, and Tulane, an associate professor of classical studies, Susann Lusnia.
In the meantime, Gray sent photos of the unusual flat marble plate to the Professor of Innsbruck Professor Harald Stadler and conveyed them to his brother, a Latin instructor.
Lusnia and the stadiums independently reached the same striking conclusion: the tombstone was dedicated to a second -century novel sailor named Sextus Congenius Verus. And the stone was first close to the location of the Civitavecchia City Museum, which was close to its location, and wrote in a column for the Gray’s magazine.
From there, Lusnia contacted the Civitavecchia Museum, and Santoro worked with FBI’s art criminal team as an important step towards sending it back.
According to the Prc for the PRC, a non -profit organization dedicated to protecting New Orleans’s architectural heritage, the group called Santoro’s “Tabon Tombon” group called “Tombun Tombstone” tried to understand how it ended in New Orleans.
What Congenius Verus’s tombstone was probably brought to New Orleans after the Second World War, seeing the tombstone of Congenius Verus in the 20th century, perhaps the US army and other allied forces fought in Italy. Nevertheless, it is not immediately clear who may have done it.
According to Gray’s archive records, Santoro and Lorenz’s house belonged to the late Native Frank and Selma Simon family for most of the 1900s. They did not hit Santoro’s team as possible criminals because he had removed the tombstone from Italy.
Frank, who directed the wholesale shoe company, died in 1945. Four sales officials and daughters who worked as a tailor protected the house until 1991. Lorenz and Santoro acquired a house in 2018 and showed new Orleans property tax evaluator records.
Santoro’s group focused briefly on Simons’ next neighbor as a candidate for bringing stones because he was a member of the US Navy during the Second World War. However, the team later decided that it was unlikely to do this. Gray explained how the records from the New Orleans National World War Museum showed that the conflict only served in the Pacific Operation Theater.
Lusnia finally went to the City Museum in the north west of Rome, and learned that the facility was almost completely destroyed in the midst of an allied bombing campaign between 1943 and 1944.
Gray wrote how Lusnia learned about the 1954 inventory of Congenius Verus’s tombstone, instead of the first -hand information, it was compiled from previous documents. “This has made it more likely to disappear from chaos after the war, Gr said Gray wrote.
Lusnia’s research confirmed that the US army troops were traveling through Civitavecchia and that Rome stayed there for a while after falling into allied forces at the beginning of June 1944. However, since it did not guarantee how the tombstone caused Louisiana’s well -known city, the group was not preparing to determine that civilizations have controlled thousands of service records.
Gray brought to some point to say that it was impossible to ignore the hands of an antique seller who sold the stone on a tourist after the war – this was when there was no way to make such sales in a meaningful way. “Maybe a family member or someone who cleaned the house after a sale, he saw him as a suitable paving stone for a muddy courtyard after a sale. “Right now, it is impossible to say, although we will continue to look for new possibilities.”
He wrote that the staff of the Civitavecchia Museum was looking forward to throwing a celebration when they took the stone back and once again.
And Congenius Verus’ epic of the gravestone “a host’s curiosity reflects a wonderful intersection and ultimately illuminates something unexpected and historically important”.
