This was no ordinary flower pot holding up the tulips in an English garden.
When an antiques expert visited Blenheim Palace in England on official business about a year ago, he happened to notice an ornately carved marble piece that was being used as a planter in one of the estate’s gardens. Something about the carvings was familiar — there was a drunken Dionysus leaning on a satyr, carved lion heads and depictions of Hercules and Ariadne merrymaking at a party.
The flower pot turned out to be part of an ancient Roman sarcophagus.
via NY Times