limestone complex depicting two pigeons or doves kissing,  Cypro-Classical I period (5th c. BC), unknown provenance (one of the thousands of Cypriot antiquities that Luigi Palma di Cesnola  sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in the late 19th c.)

9.8.21 Dawn in the fertile valley of Marion, Polis Chrysochous.

It is so strange not to know the origin of an object. Standing before the objects of unknown origin, I think of the Odyssey, where the stranger is hosted as a representative of the god and is always asked the question ‘Stranger, who are you and where do you come from? Which is your city, and who are your parents?’ When I look at these objects I think of how important it is to know where we have sprung from.