Found

Frieze Masters, 13 - 17 October 2021

A selection of 20 objects whose excavation details have survived the passage of time. Whether it is a simple ink inscription on a Palaeolithic axe or a video recording the discovery of a fossilised crocodile, each object was displayed with information about how and where it was found: its story brought full circle.

FOUND AT THE TEMPLE OF GOLGOI

Near Athienou, Cyprus between 1865 - 1876

MONUMENTAL CYPRIOT HEAD OF A VOTARY

Limestone, circa 7th - early 6th century BC

Provenance:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acquired from General Luigi Palma di Cesnola between 1874 - 1876.

FOUND IN THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION

South Clear Creek Fossil Quarry, Wyoming, USA, 14th May 2019

PREHISTORIC CROCODILE

Fossilised bone in original matrix, Late Eocene, circa 50 million years before
Present

FOUND NEAR LARNACA

Cyprus, early-mid 20th century

CYPRIOT BARREL-SHAPED JUG

Pottery decorated with red and umber pigments, Cypro-Archaic, circa 750 - 600 BC

Provenance:
Legally exported from Cyprus in the mid-20th century and retaining original Cypriot lead export seal and tag

Exhibited:
Detroit Institute of Arts, 1983 - 2019

FOUND AT THE ISEION

Behbeit El-Hagara

SUNKEN RELIEF WITH THE STRIDING FIGURE OF A NILE FERTILITY GOD

Granite, Ptolemaic Period, circa 285 - 246 BC

Provenance:
With M. Ali el-Gabri (1887-1911)
Subsequently with Ernest Brummer, acquired in 1928
The Ernest Brummer Collection, Sotheby's London, 16 November 1964, lot 97

Exhibited:
The Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Houston, Texas, 2013 - 2016