Cambodia has identified the two massive pedestals where the statues once stood because their feet match the statues, which were broken off at the ankles.
In 2007 archaeologists matched the other statue, on display since 1980 at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif., to its similarly detached pedestal.
The Cleveland museum said in a written statement this week that, although the Norton Simon and Sotheby's statues' cut-off legs matched the feet looters left behind, its curator of Indian and Southeast Asian art found no fragment in the temple that matched a plastic cast of its statue of the monkey god, Hanuman.
The dumb chorus prefigures the speaking one, which arrives in robes and half-masks that match the colors of the statues.
Indeed, the Dinuzulu statue closely matches the Botha effigy in style, height and general stature.
Open areas are infilled with grass and a gravel matching the stone of the castle Statues and urns are typical of the extravagant baroque style of the 17th and 18th centuries The reds and yellows of hybrid tea roses, golden yews, purple prunus and 30 varieties of acer echo the colours of the Drummond family crest.
Eric Bourdonneau, the archaeologist who matched both statues to their bases, says the relics were looted in the early 1970s.
"Few things in life match the thrill of a marathon," read a quotation from Lebow on a poster placed beneath his statue.
The Salter Statues Campaign group raised £60,000 which Southwark Council matched to pay for the statues.
For example, is it fair to the rest of us that they were blessed with affluence, a privileged education, great looks (like matching Greek statues) and winning $65 million under the settlement they now want to unwind?
