Egypt
- Amarna Princess Head For Sale
http://www.gazinauctions.com/princess/ "A rare Mansoor portrait sculpture of an 18th dynasty Amarna Princess [ca 1363-1364 B.C.] goes live on eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace. . . . This princess head is in nearly perfect condition, the...
- Revisiting The Mansoor Amarna Collection
Here we have the website of the hotly disputed collection of Amarna period sculptures collected by antiques dealer M. A. Mansoor with some scholars considering the collection to be fakes while others are comfortable as feeling the sculptures are genuine....
- The Saga Of The Louvre Amarna Princess
Though I am not a believer in the authenticity of the art pieces in the M.A. Mansoor Amarna collection I do feel that Mr. M.A. Mansoor was a well respected antiques dealer. The link is from the Mansoor Collection about the Amarna princess which the family...
- The Irrelevant King
This 9" tall limestone sunk relief block in Berlin's Neues museum pertains to show Smenkhkare and Merytaten or even Tutankhamun and Ankhesanamun, no real way of ever knowing who these people are except that they are Egyptian royals from the Amarna...
- Classic: Mansoor Amarna Collection
Here we have the website of the hotly disputed collection of Amarna period sculptures collected by antiques dealer M. A. Mansoor with some scholars considering the collection to be fakes while others are comfortable as feeling the sculptures are genuine....
Egypt
The Mansoor-Amarna Collection
As a direct consequence of the previous article re the Amarna Princess sculpture currently being sold on Ebay, I went to have a hunt around on the Web to find out more about the Mansoor collection mentioned in the auction house Press Release. For those of you who are interested, here is a small selection of links on the subject. The collection consisted 106 limestone sculptures and fragments, dating from circa 1350 B.C., representing Queen Nefertiti, King Akhenaten, and their family. It seems that in the past, the collection has not been without its fair share of controversy.
The official website for the collection can be found at the address below. As well as descritpions and images of the collection, it provides papers of scientific studies in favour and against the authenticity of the collection, and a history of the collection:
http://www.mansooramarnacollection.com/
http://www.mansooramarnacollection.com/docs/
http://www.mansooramarnacollection.com/history.html
A fascinating history of all the arguments for and against is provided by the following article by Edmond Mansoor, from 1971, in English in spite of the paper's title "Je cherche un homme":
http://www.amarnamansoor.com/JeCherche.htm
An article by Gianfranco Nolli in June 1986 (at that time curator of the collection), defending the collection against speculation that "attemtps to descredit the authenticity of the Mansoor-Amarna collection."
http://www.amarnamansoor.com/InDefence.htm
http://www.amarnamansoor.com/InDefence.htm
An entire online book dedicated to the controversy by Mansoor family member Christine Mansoor can be found at:
http://www.mansooramarnacollection.com/scandal/
You can find a review of it here:
http://www.mythinglinks.org/afr~egy~amarna.html
All fascinating stuff!
- Amarna Princess Head For Sale
http://www.gazinauctions.com/princess/ "A rare Mansoor portrait sculpture of an 18th dynasty Amarna Princess [ca 1363-1364 B.C.] goes live on eBay, the world’s largest online marketplace. . . . This princess head is in nearly perfect condition, the...
- Revisiting The Mansoor Amarna Collection
Here we have the website of the hotly disputed collection of Amarna period sculptures collected by antiques dealer M. A. Mansoor with some scholars considering the collection to be fakes while others are comfortable as feeling the sculptures are genuine....
- The Saga Of The Louvre Amarna Princess
Though I am not a believer in the authenticity of the art pieces in the M.A. Mansoor Amarna collection I do feel that Mr. M.A. Mansoor was a well respected antiques dealer. The link is from the Mansoor Collection about the Amarna princess which the family...
- The Irrelevant King
This 9" tall limestone sunk relief block in Berlin's Neues museum pertains to show Smenkhkare and Merytaten or even Tutankhamun and Ankhesanamun, no real way of ever knowing who these people are except that they are Egyptian royals from the Amarna...
- Classic: Mansoor Amarna Collection
Here we have the website of the hotly disputed collection of Amarna period sculptures collected by antiques dealer M. A. Mansoor with some scholars considering the collection to be fakes while others are comfortable as feeling the sculptures are genuine....