OBJECT FILE
The Lady of Lemba
FOLLOWCyprus Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
THE OBJECT
A limestone figurine 36 cm high from the Chalcolithic period (about 3500 BC): a naked, pregnant woman with short outstretched arms, found at Lemba near Paphos and displayed in the Cyprus Museum, Nicosia.
REPORTED ACTIVITY
Online videos and listicles call her a 'Goddess of Death' that killed owner after owner following an 1878 discovery, and a curator in an Edinburgh museum. The Cyprus Mail (Jean Christou, 27 November 2022) found none of it holds: the figure was discovered in the 1970s, is in the Cyprus Museum, not Edinburgh — 'great story, but they are all hoax'. Recorded here AS a hoax.
WHERE IT IS NOW
On public display — kept by Cyprus Museum. Cyprus Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus.
PROVENANCE · 2 ENTRIES
TRACE ON THE MAP →1970 — CURRENT LOCATION
POSSIBLE LOCATIONFound at Lemba
Lemba, Paphos, Cyprus
Date approximate: 'in the 1970s' — the year is not given.
Source: Cyprus Mail, 27 November 2022 ('the statue was actually discovered in the 1970s')
2022 — CURRENT LOCATION
POSSIBLE LOCATIONCyprus Museum
Cyprus Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
Date approximate: known to be in the Cyprus Museum by this article. When it went there is not recorded.
Source: Cyprus Mail, 27 November 2022 ('is displayed in the Cyprus museum')
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