STANDING CASE F. Replica of the Boston Goddess

Accession Number AN1938.695
Year 1930s
Dimensions h. 18.2 cm
Medium plaster
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Now regarded as a fake, the Boston Goddess was acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1914. Evans was convinced it was genuine, and a partner to another ‘Boy God’ figure, and so commissioned a replica for the 1936 exhibition.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1930. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, III, pp. 436-442, fig. 305

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 17