Bring Her Back, written by Sofia Kioroglou at Spillwords.com June 26, 2017
Six draped female figures
Greet me on the porch of the Erechtheion
Enchanting maiden dancers beckoning me
With baskets of live reeds on their heads
Waving their hands on the balcony
Immaculately attired and coiffed
The maidens of Karyai weeping over their looted sister
Stranded alone in the cold British museum
I try to wipe a tear off their eyes
And all I get is a dirty look
"Not acting is conniving" she whispered
Alas, one angry stare from you is worse than Gehinnom*
*[Gehinnom is a small valley in Jerusalem and the Jewish and Christian analogue of hell].
I suppose it would be seen as impolite to comment that the figures seen today on the building are modern copies, not the originals, which were moved to safety (safety from the polluted atmosphere of the modern Greek city), in the same way as the statue now in the British Museum was moved there for preservation and safety, well before the Greeks bothered to emulate the activities of the early collectors.
