An online petition by the Karpathos Lady website has been
launched asking the British Museum and the Greek Mistry of Culture to negotiate
the loan of the 6.000-year-old statue for exhibition in Greece.
The statue of a female deity was smuggled off the island of
Karpathos in 1885 by the British adventurer, Theodore Bent, who sold it to the
British Museum.
In 2014, the statue, known as the “Karpathos Lady”, started
a touring exhibition as part of the BBC/British Museum radio series titled “A
History of the World in 100 Objects”.
The tour included Taiwan, Australia, China, France and Hong
Kong but NOT GREECE.
Is it because the British feel guilty about the “Marbles”
from the Parthenon which were stolen from Greece, by Elgin, in 1812? The British ought to feel guilty about many
treasures stolen, besides Greece, from numerous countries in Asia, Africa and
Europe, of which they are, unfortunately, very proud.
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