The Getty Kouros

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"One of those two Zippo lighters was in Franklin D. Roosevelt's pocket when he was killed. And one wasn't. One has historic significance, a whole lot of it. As much as any object ever had. And one has nothing. Can you feel the difference? You can't. You can't tell which is which. There's no magical energy around it."—Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle "If genuine, the kouros is one of the most significant works of ancient art to enter the United States since World War II. But it has no recorded history or provenance... [As] the kouros shows, objectivity is an illusion, even with modern tools like electron microscopes, thermoluminescence, and carbon-14 dating."—The New York Times, 1991