<< ... I was thrilled when I was alerted to a possible biblical forgery on display, not that far from my own Boston University office.1 The museum in question is the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (formerly the Harvard Semitic Museum). And the piece in question is a 20-inch high limestone relief sculpture of a goddess, bearing the Greek inscription theeapare panton (“divine producer of all”). The sculpture is displayed on the second floor, within the exhibit entitled “From the Nile to the Euphrates,” which forthrightly traces and illustrates the origins of the museum’s collections, including not only materials gathered in archaeological excavations but also materials gathered by purchase or even plunder. >>

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