The same way Russian soldiers are taking washing machines and refrigerators now?
(i.e. the military authorities turning a blind eye towards looting even when their own infrastructure is used for transportation)
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Nope. Unfortunately someone made an NFT of it and now she owes them $4 billion. That’s how NFTs work.
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more than likely not the same characteristic detail… likely
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Yes, most likely, but I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference in the store, most likely. When looking it up later I might realize.
But odds are, if you buy a marble bust somewhere, it is a modern or even an antique replica. Not an ancient relic.
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Nowadays it could just as easily be a cast of marble dust and resin, not as easy to spot as I had thought.
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Cologne is called that because it was a Roman colony. A good sized one. 
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Meanwhile, back on the Internet,
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Ah, yes, one year on from the deletion it is completely unavailable on the inter…wait?!
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The san antonio art museum’s page.
https://www.samuseum.org/artwork/exhibition/a-roman-portrait-from-germany-in-texas/
Ludwig I built it because he wanted to replicate the wonders of Pompeii in Bavaria. Did he stock the Pompejanum with local finds, or did he buy things from elsewhere?
and from Laura Young’s lawyers.
which has an enormous amount of information on Ludwig’s collecting habits.
An 1830 catalog of the Glyptothek
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There’s no such thing as priceless. There are just some things you’re not allowed to specify the price of, or whose price can’t easily be measured in dollars.
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