# Can anyone identify this statue?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 8, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-statue/375691 "2006-10-08T05:17:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-statue/375691/1 "2006-10-08T05:17:15Z")

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As far as I can tell the statue is either of a mask or part of a face. It’s the center photo [here](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mulderscreek/detail?.dir=265fscd&.dnm=a3edscd.jpg&.src=ph). Unfortunately there was nothing on the display to identify what the photos were of. It’s a neat piece in any case.

Does anyone recognize it?

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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-statue/375691/2 "2006-10-08T05:21:11Z")

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Google image search for “face sculpture” says it’s in front of the British Museum in London. Not sure what it’s called, though.

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**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2006, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anyone-identify-this-statue/375691/3 "2006-10-08T05:29:03Z")

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[Face](http://www.planetware.com/picture/london/british-museum-gb-gbln101.htm), by Igor Mitoraj.