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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8318321, member: 128351&quot;]We just have to compare this stone head with the already known Middle-East sculptures from the Neolithic to the Iron Age: there is absolutely no parallel. Genuine sculptures show Sumerian, Mesopotamian, Egyptian influences. This one has no parallel of any kind (or maybe vaguely resembles Indian or Khmer sculptures). The technique of the sculptor is childish: he (or she) just dug the stone around eyes, mouth, ears (but he or she could do nothing to make a nose because the initial stone shape did not make it possible). Seriously, this is typical of tourist fakes.</p><p>I know them, in the Gaza ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and the Qasr el-Pasha Museum. They are full of good will, and sincerely committed to protect historical heritage. But they have no experts. Studying archaeology and art history in a good university is a luxury nobody can afford in Gaza. Sometimes, when foreign archaeologists are there, they ask for advice, but I am sure no one was there when a peasant came to the Ministry with this stone head allegedly found in his field (with no archaeological context at all). </p><p>A few years before they were very excited about what they said to be a Greek bust. A foreign archaeologist was there and when he saw the object, he told them it was a miniature resin reproduction of Michelangelo&#039;s David, the kind you find by the dozens in Italian souvenir shops. What did they do? They put it in a display in the Qasr el-Pasha archaeological museum, among genuine ancient pottery and stone objects, with a tag saying it was a statue of King David by Michelangelo !!! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1473049[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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