“He stood on a shelf in the British Museum, lonely and forgotten among a crowd of clearly and incomparably more significant deities. These more important characters, displayed along the walls along the entire perimeter of the display case, with all their appearance, seemed to be appointed to demonstrate their own overwhelming superiority. On the pedestal of each of them, a tablet duly indicated the country and people who once had the honor of possessing the said idol. So there was no doubt about their true position: they were all significant deities and as such universally recognized ... "