the.com/getty kouros
a 2,500-year-old Greek boy statue that might be a very good liar.
means a marble statue of a nude youth, bought by the getty museum in 1985, whose authenticity has never been settled either way.
from surfaced in the early 1980s via a swiss art dealer with a shaky paper trail, styled after archaic greek kouroi from the 6th century bce, and sold to the getty for roughly 7 million dollars before anyone agreed it was real.
experts splitsome scientists say ancient, some historians say fake
marble sourcedolomitic marble matches only one greek quarry
surface agingcalcite crust looked natural but formed suspiciously fast
museum labelgetty now calls it greek, about 530 bce, or modern forgery
for instance
getty villa — malibu, california, where the statue stands on public display
anavysos kouros — authentic athens counterpart used to judge the getty's style