tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13464598.post-5609162668458475242008-05-07T15:14:00.008-04:002008-05-22T14:22:27.839-04:00<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;"> According to <a href="http://technology.iafrica.com/news/science/889298.htm"> iafrica.com</a>, the bathtub was stolen in 2005 and just recently found in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Spain</st1:place></st1:country-region> by the Italian police by coincidence.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Not only were they the Italian police, but specialists in stolen artwork, who randomly came across this tub in <span class="articlebody">a Spanish Mediterranean port city</span> while on other business . The officers were browsing in an antique shop, where the owner said he bought the tub for <span class="articlebody">€3000 (4,621.31 USD</span>)<span class="articlebody"> at the end of 2005, thinking it was a good deal for the oval-shaped reproduction. Little did he know he got 99% off valued price. That's a bargain! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Today, the tub is worth at a mere €300,000 (</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;">462,031.00 USD)<span class="articlebody">. Don’t too bad considering it dates back to the era of the Roman emperor Hadrian, in the second century A.D. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="articlebody"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Maybe the next owner won’t keep it in a garden of a villa, which is where it was originally stolen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;">This tub clearly used it's Roman decent as an advantage on St. Anthony's list.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <span style="font-family:arial;"></span>Classy Clawfooternoreply@blogger.com