Pointing out that Turkish law only protects treasures taken after 1906, the museum's director at the time claimed it could have been found "any time since the Italian Renaissance".
Naglašavajući da turski zakon štiti samo blago uzeto posle 1906. godine, tadašnji direktor muzeja je tvrdio da je statua mogla da bude pronađena „u bilo koje doba posle italijanske renesanse“.