{"id":109058,"date":"2025-10-10T16:57:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/?p=109058"},"modified":"2025-10-10T17:58:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:58:32","slug":"ancient-roman-tombstone-found-in-new-orleans-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/ancient-roman-tombstone-found-in-new-orleans-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Roman Tombstone Found in New Orleans Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stories of ancient Roman artifacts and ruins being dug up in back gardens or disrupting construction projects are common. It seems that a British pensioner can hardly dig a new plot for potatoes, nor an Italian municipality put in a new road, without <a href=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/drought-unveils-ancient-italian-treasures\/\">Roman artifacts interfering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But New Orleans, an ocean away from the former Roman Empire, should have been a safe bet. Not so. Last spring, Tulane University anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband, Aaron Lorenz, found a Latin-engraved and seemingly ancient stone in their backyard.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109088\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109088\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109088\" src=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ancient_Roman_Graveyard.jpg\" alt=\"A graveyard\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ancient_Roman_Graveyard.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ancient_Roman_Graveyard-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ancient_Roman_Graveyard-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ancient_Roman_Graveyard-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ancient_Roman_Graveyard-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-109088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Roman graveyard in Northern Macedonia is the kind of place you expect to find Roman headstones. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Could it be real?<\/h2>\n<p>Their first concern was that, like many New Orleans constructions, their home was built on an older cemetery. Santoro reached out to D. Ryan Gray of the <a href=\"https:\/\/prcno.org\/\">Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans<\/a>. Gray, a fellow professor of anthropology, helps map the hidden cemeteries and burial grounds of New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>He checked the location, but the couple&#8217;s cheerful yellow house in Carrollton, New Orleans, didn&#8217;t lie on any known burial site. That&#8217;s when Gray turned to the curious Latin inscription. While Gray sent it to an expert in Austria, Santoro passed the inscription onto a colleague at her university, Dr. Susann Lusnia. Both classicists returned with the same conclusion: This wasn&#8217;t another <a href=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/the-tucson-artifacts-hoax\/\">Roman artifact hoax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The stone reads, roughly, as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To the Spirits of the Dead for Sextus Congenius Verus, soldier of the praetorian fleet Misenensis, from the tribe of the Bessi, [who] lived 42 years [and] served 22 in the military, on the trieme Asclepius. Atilius Carus and Vettius Longinus, his heirs, made [this] for him [who was] well deserving.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_109082\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109082\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109082\" src=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/museo_archeologico_nazionale_civitavecchia_-_panorama_sale.jpg\" alt=\"A museum with statues\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/museo_archeologico_nazionale_civitavecchia_-_panorama_sale.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/museo_archeologico_nazionale_civitavecchia_-_panorama_sale-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/museo_archeologico_nazionale_civitavecchia_-_panorama_sale-700x394.jpg 700w, https:\/\/explorersweb.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/museo_archeologico_nazionale_civitavecchia_-_panorama_sale-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-109082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The gravestone is being repatriated to this Italian archaeological museum. Photo: National Archeological Museum of Civitavecchia<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>How did it get to New Orleans?<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s an obvious question. How did a 2nd-century Roman navy man&#8217;s headstone end up in Louisiana? The two experts provided a vital clue. You see, modern archaeology had already uncovered the tombstone of Sextus Congenius Verus, near an old Roman port in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, it had been listed as missing from the local museum. The city of Civitavecchia, which Sextus would have known as Centumcellae, was a target of intense Allied bombing during the Second World War. In the destruction of the bombs and the chaos of post-war Italy, much of the collection was lost or destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the mysterious ancient Roman tombstone made it on the news, where Erin Scott O\u2019Brien recognized her old home &#8212; and her old decorative garden stone.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien had placed the stone in the garden in the early 2000s and left it there when she moved out a decade later. She&#8217;d inherited what she thought was a piece of yard art from her maternal grandparents. Her grandfather, Charles Paddock Jr, was a WW2 vet who had spent much of the war in Italy. Paddock brought the stone, and his wife Adele, back from the war.<\/p>\n<p>The couple had put the stone in a display case in their home. There it remained until they both died in the 1980s. Eventually, it ended up with his granddaughter, Erin O&#8217;Brien.<\/p>\n<p>Now, finally, it&#8217;s going back to Italy. The tombstone is now in the hands of the FBI&#8217;s Art Crime team, who are working to repatriate it to Civitavecchia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did an ancient Roman tombstone end up buried in a New Orleans back garden? 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