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Head of Anahit/British Museum

04/28/2026 14:58h
For Michael Coyle and Donna Frieze 1 You said anyone could walk in with a pack of explosives as we passed through the crowds of tourists and school kids — under the glass-grid ceiling lit with sun. I was saying:She’s our earth, our body, our sex, as we drifted down the halls of statues and colonnades and hunks of facades of Greek temples until we found room 22, “The Hellenistic World,” where a bronze face in a glass box on the wall stared back at us. Head from a bronze cult statue of Anahita, a local goddess in the guise of Aphrodite (