Egypt
- New Book: The Memphite Tomb Of Horemheb
Brepols Publishers M. J. Raven, V. Verschoor, M. Vugts, R. v. Walsem 2011 The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb. Commander-in-Chief of Tutankhamun, V: The Forecourt and the Area South of the Tomb with Some Notes on the Tomb of Tia This book is the first in a...
- Saqqara.nl
saqqara.nl Including the 2009 dig diaries. Welcome to Saqqara.nl A visitor to the site before 1975 would have viewed a landscape uncluttered by monuments of any kind ... An observant visitor might have noticed rough rectangular depressions in the sand:...
- Egypt Faces Obstacles In Recovering Antiquities
Associated Press More than half a century ago, a prominent Egyptian archaeologist unearthed a stunning ancient mummy mask at the Saqqara pyramids near Cairo — the golden image of a noblewoman's face.Mohammed Zakaria Ghoneim deposited the 3,200-year-old...
- Update Re St Louis Mask
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12598537/The SCA have given the St Louis Art Museum a deadline for returning the Mask, which they believe was stolen from Saqqara, and is therefore rightfully the property of Egypt: "If only the 3,000-year-old mummy mask at the...
- The St Louis Mask Controversy
The mysterious voyage of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask http://www.riverfronttimes.com/Issues/2006-02-15/news/feature.htmlA long feature (10 pages - easier to read in Print view) about the discovery and subsequent travels of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask now in the...
Egypt
Letter re the St Louis Mask
Thanks very much to Geoffrey Tassie of the Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organization (ECHO http://www.e-c-h-o.org/index2.htm) for forwarding the following letter:
To whom it may concern
I hereby confirm that the mummy mask of Kai Nefer Nefer shown on the website of museum-security (http://www.museum-security.org/) and allegedly purchased by the Saint Louis Museum has been excavated by Zakaria Goneim in the area of the unfinished step pyramid of Pharaoh Sekhemkhet at Saqqara in the years 1951-1955 (the illustration comes from Z.Goneim, Horus Sekhem-khet, Cairo 1957, plate 58). The finds of this excavation should be in storage in the so-called Sekhemkhet Magazine, located to the south of the pyramid of Unas at Saqqara. This storeroom, which also served as a repository for numerous finds from our own excavations (the Anglo-Dutch excavations at Saqqara, organized by the Egypt Exploration Society in London and the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden), has been entered by force and plundered at the end of the '80s. It is unknown to me whether the Egyptian authorities have communicated this theft at the time. I myself have seen an object from the said storeroom circulating on the Dutch art market in the '90s. I would not be surprised if various institutions or private collectors have purchased objects from this storeroom in that period. In the meantime the storeroom has been completely (?) emptied of objects and partly dismantled by the local authorities; the remaining objects have been put together in a newly built storage facility at the valley edge at Saqqara.
Dr. Maarten J. Raven
Curator, Egyptian department
Joint field director, Dutch excavations at Saqqara
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
(National Museum of Antiquities)
I hereby confirm that the mummy mask of Kai Nefer Nefer shown on the website of museum-security (http://www.museum-security.org/) and allegedly purchased by the Saint Louis Museum has been excavated by Zakaria Goneim in the area of the unfinished step pyramid of Pharaoh Sekhemkhet at Saqqara in the years 1951-1955 (the illustration comes from Z.Goneim, Horus Sekhem-khet, Cairo 1957, plate 58). The finds of this excavation should be in storage in the so-called Sekhemkhet Magazine, located to the south of the pyramid of Unas at Saqqara. This storeroom, which also served as a repository for numerous finds from our own excavations (the Anglo-Dutch excavations at Saqqara, organized by the Egypt Exploration Society in London and the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden), has been entered by force and plundered at the end of the '80s. It is unknown to me whether the Egyptian authorities have communicated this theft at the time. I myself have seen an object from the said storeroom circulating on the Dutch art market in the '90s. I would not be surprised if various institutions or private collectors have purchased objects from this storeroom in that period. In the meantime the storeroom has been completely (?) emptied of objects and partly dismantled by the local authorities; the remaining objects have been put together in a newly built storage facility at the valley edge at Saqqara.
Dr. Maarten J. Raven
Curator, Egyptian department
Joint field director, Dutch excavations at Saqqara
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
(National Museum of Antiquities)
- New Book: The Memphite Tomb Of Horemheb
Brepols Publishers M. J. Raven, V. Verschoor, M. Vugts, R. v. Walsem 2011 The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb. Commander-in-Chief of Tutankhamun, V: The Forecourt and the Area South of the Tomb with Some Notes on the Tomb of Tia This book is the first in a...
- Saqqara.nl
saqqara.nl Including the 2009 dig diaries. Welcome to Saqqara.nl A visitor to the site before 1975 would have viewed a landscape uncluttered by monuments of any kind ... An observant visitor might have noticed rough rectangular depressions in the sand:...
- Egypt Faces Obstacles In Recovering Antiquities
Associated Press More than half a century ago, a prominent Egyptian archaeologist unearthed a stunning ancient mummy mask at the Saqqara pyramids near Cairo — the golden image of a noblewoman's face.Mohammed Zakaria Ghoneim deposited the 3,200-year-old...
- Update Re St Louis Mask
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12598537/The SCA have given the St Louis Art Museum a deadline for returning the Mask, which they believe was stolen from Saqqara, and is therefore rightfully the property of Egypt: "If only the 3,000-year-old mummy mask at the...
- The St Louis Mask Controversy
The mysterious voyage of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask http://www.riverfronttimes.com/Issues/2006-02-15/news/feature.htmlA long feature (10 pages - easier to read in Print view) about the discovery and subsequent travels of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask now in the...