Egypt
- Dorothea Arnold To Become Curator Emeritus
Art Daily Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced that distinguished curator, scholar, and archaeologist Dorothea Arnold will retire on June 30, following 21 years as head of the Department of Egyptian Art,...
- Finding Ancient Egypt's Sense Of Humor
New York Times (Souren Melikian) Perhaps the future of top museums across the Western world that are strapped for cash lies in cameo exhibitions. This much is suggested by the remarkable show “Haremhab, the General Who Became King” put together by...
- Book Review: When The Pyramids Were Built
Egyptians (Tim Reid) When the Pyramids Were Built: Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom Dorothea Arnold, 1999 Rizzoli International Publications This lovely book was written by Dorothea Arnold in conjunction with the exhibition "Egyptian Art in the Age of...
- Stolen Egyptian Artefacts Handed Over To Consulate
The New York Sun (Bradley Hope) A stolen4,500-year-old Egyptian relic that was to be included in a Christie's auction last year was returned to the consulate yesterday and will soon head to Egypt, officials said. The duck-shaped, alabaster vessel...
- Egypt To Recover Illegally Obtained Alabaster Vesels
http://tinyurl.com/22mra5 (actualidad.terra.es)"El ministro egipcio de Cultura, Faruq Hosni, anunció que su país recuperará dos urnas de alabastro con forma de pato que datan del Imperio Medio (2025-1795 a.C.) y que fueron sacadas de contrabando fuera...
Egypt
More re duck-shaped vessels retrieved by Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/23opew (sis.gov.eg)
"Egypt has succeeded in retrieving two food alabaster boxes in the shape of ducks which had been excavated by Dr. Dieter Arnold in 1979 from the pyramid complex of Amenemhat III at Dahshur then smuggled abroad. These were reconstructed, then taken immediately to the magazines at Saqqara and stored there, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced Sunday.
Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawass explained that such boxes returned back to Egypt with the help of Arnold who is now a senior curator at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Hawass continued that several years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the other from Rupert Wace Ancient Art Limited in London. Arnold was intrigued by these ducks, as he knew they must be royal, but the Metropolitan Museum was not satisfied with their provenances and decided against buying them. However, he and his assistant, Adela Oppenheim, continued to study photographs of these ducks and realised that they were, in fact, the same ducks that Arnold has excavated in 1979. Arnold informed Hawass immediately of this situation."
See the above page for the full story.
"Egypt has succeeded in retrieving two food alabaster boxes in the shape of ducks which had been excavated by Dr. Dieter Arnold in 1979 from the pyramid complex of Amenemhat III at Dahshur then smuggled abroad. These were reconstructed, then taken immediately to the magazines at Saqqara and stored there, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni announced Sunday.
Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) Zahi Hawass explained that such boxes returned back to Egypt with the help of Arnold who is now a senior curator at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Hawass continued that several years ago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the other from Rupert Wace Ancient Art Limited in London. Arnold was intrigued by these ducks, as he knew they must be royal, but the Metropolitan Museum was not satisfied with their provenances and decided against buying them. However, he and his assistant, Adela Oppenheim, continued to study photographs of these ducks and realised that they were, in fact, the same ducks that Arnold has excavated in 1979. Arnold informed Hawass immediately of this situation."
See the above page for the full story.
- Dorothea Arnold To Become Curator Emeritus
Art Daily Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced that distinguished curator, scholar, and archaeologist Dorothea Arnold will retire on June 30, following 21 years as head of the Department of Egyptian Art,...
- Finding Ancient Egypt's Sense Of Humor
New York Times (Souren Melikian) Perhaps the future of top museums across the Western world that are strapped for cash lies in cameo exhibitions. This much is suggested by the remarkable show “Haremhab, the General Who Became King” put together by...
- Book Review: When The Pyramids Were Built
Egyptians (Tim Reid) When the Pyramids Were Built: Egyptian Art of the Old Kingdom Dorothea Arnold, 1999 Rizzoli International Publications This lovely book was written by Dorothea Arnold in conjunction with the exhibition "Egyptian Art in the Age of...
- Stolen Egyptian Artefacts Handed Over To Consulate
The New York Sun (Bradley Hope) A stolen4,500-year-old Egyptian relic that was to be included in a Christie's auction last year was returned to the consulate yesterday and will soon head to Egypt, officials said. The duck-shaped, alabaster vessel...
- Egypt To Recover Illegally Obtained Alabaster Vesels
http://tinyurl.com/22mra5 (actualidad.terra.es)"El ministro egipcio de Cultura, Faruq Hosni, anunció que su país recuperará dos urnas de alabastro con forma de pato que datan del Imperio Medio (2025-1795 a.C.) y que fueron sacadas de contrabando fuera...