Egypt
- New Details Of Theft Claim In St. Louis Art Museum Ka Nefer Nefer Mask Forfeiture
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Rick St. Hilaire) Prosecutors in the case of United States v. Mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer today filed a Reply in Support of Its Motion to Reconsider. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri hopes to reverse a...
- The Repatriation Of The St Louis Mask Again Under Discussion
NewsDay A fight between the US government and the St Louis Art Museum over a death mask from ancient Egypt intensified last Wednesday as the government formally demanded the museum hand over the disputed object. The 3 200-year-old mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer,...
- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
Google / The Canadian Press The St. Louis Art Museum has filed a federal lawsuit to try to keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that Egypt wants returned, claiming it was stolen. The museum says the U.S. government is trying to seize the 20-inch (51-centimetre)-long...
- The Continuing Story Of Ka-nefer-nefer
The story of the mask called Ka-nefer-nefer in the St. Louis Art Museum appears to be turning on St. Louis in favour of Cairo as the mask clearly is the same mask excavated and shown in excavation photo's of the early 1950's. Lawyers for the museum...
- U.s. Demands Return Ka-nefer-nefer
The United states government has now demanded that the St, Louis Art Museum hand over the nineteenth dynasty mask known as the mask of Ka-nefer-nefer so that it may be returned back to Egypt. Battle for Ka-nefer-nefer...
Egypt
More re the St Louis Mask
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With photo of the disputed mask.
With photo of the disputed mask.
Prosecutors said the funeral mask of Lady Ka-Nefer-Nefer went missing from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo about 40 years ago and that it should be returned to its country of origin. The St. Louis Art Museum said it researched the provenance of the mask and legitimately purchased it in 1998 from a New York art dealer.
US District Judge Henry Autry in St Louis sided with the museum.
The US government “does not provide a factual statement of theft, smuggling or clandestine importation,” Autry wrote in the 31 March ruling.
“The Government cannot simply rest on its laurels and believe that it can initiate a civil forfeiture proceeding on the basis of one bold assertion that because something went missing from one party in 1973 and turned up with another party in 1998, it was therefore stolen and/or imported or exported illegally,” the judge wrote.
A message left with Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities was not returned.
- New Details Of Theft Claim In St. Louis Art Museum Ka Nefer Nefer Mask Forfeiture
Cultural Heritage Lawyer (Rick St. Hilaire) Prosecutors in the case of United States v. Mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer today filed a Reply in Support of Its Motion to Reconsider. The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri hopes to reverse a...
- The Repatriation Of The St Louis Mask Again Under Discussion
NewsDay A fight between the US government and the St Louis Art Museum over a death mask from ancient Egypt intensified last Wednesday as the government formally demanded the museum hand over the disputed object. The 3 200-year-old mask of Ka-Nefer-Nefer,...
- St. Louis Art Museum Files Suit
Google / The Canadian Press The St. Louis Art Museum has filed a federal lawsuit to try to keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask that Egypt wants returned, claiming it was stolen. The museum says the U.S. government is trying to seize the 20-inch (51-centimetre)-long...
- The Continuing Story Of Ka-nefer-nefer
The story of the mask called Ka-nefer-nefer in the St. Louis Art Museum appears to be turning on St. Louis in favour of Cairo as the mask clearly is the same mask excavated and shown in excavation photo's of the early 1950's. Lawyers for the museum...
- U.s. Demands Return Ka-nefer-nefer
The United states government has now demanded that the St, Louis Art Museum hand over the nineteenth dynasty mask known as the mask of Ka-nefer-nefer so that it may be returned back to Egypt. Battle for Ka-nefer-nefer...