an art collector approaches a historian about a small statue. The collector claims to have purchased the statue from a man who said it was one of the earliest depictions of the Babylonian king Hammurabi. the collector wants to know i this claim is true. which of the following pieces of evidence, if true, would support the claim that the statue is authentic?

a: it is larger than any other statue of hammurabi
b: it is nearly identical to dozens of other statues of hammurabi
c: it was discovered in the ruins of hammurabi's childhood bedchamber
d: babylonian kings preferred painted portraits to statues