"Well, whoever did that" - he points to a headless statue - "ought to be strung up and whipped."
These statues, now headless, represent the actual foreign diplomats who were present at Gaozong's funeral.
It affords a peek at Lenin's headless statue in a courtyard.
Without it, the church has been like a headless statue of a saint vandalised by passing iconoclasts.
In the main square of Larghetto a bus lay on its side, and headless statues stood over the empty fountains.
Many stopped to stare at the headless 100-year-old statue, making the sign of the cross.
These are apt to twist into contorted shapes or look like headless statues.
The team has also found many amulets, along with a beautiful headless statue dating to the Ptolemaic Period.
This must be the missing piece to a headless statue of a local governor from the fifth century A.D. that had been recovered years ago.
It was here that the headless statue of Oikoumenios was found in 1965.