Unexpected Revelation: The Enigmatic Statue

Prompt:  Archaeologists in Bulgaria made an unexpected discovery in an ancient Roman sewer last week: A well-preserved marble statue, taller than a man. “We found it by accident,” the scientific director of the excavation. “It was amazing. A whole statue appeared in front of us.” when they found a small marble shrine hidden under the altar of a side chapel. Inside the shrine was a "heavily fragmented" box, or pyx, made of ivory and "richly decorated with Christian motifs."