Egypt
River Front Times (Malcolm Gay)
Some of you may remember that a very beautiful funerary mask, currently located in the St Louis Art Museum, has been the topic of repatriation disputes in the past. I have covered this in a number of posts (click the link for all the available references), and Geoffrey Tassie has provided an articulate summary of some of the issues online (posted February 2006). I thought that this impasse had slipped off the list of Egyptian repatriation grievances, but apparently the issue has been revived by Hawass in an interview.
There is a video recording of the interview on the above page, which contains the relevant pronouncement and also contains an extract from the programme Egypt's Lost Queen.
- The Repatriation Of The St Louis Mask Again Under Discussion
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- 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...
- 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...
- St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/z8qma "The St Louis Mask issue is still alive and in dispute: " Egypt threatened Tuesday to take legal action against a US museum unless it returns an ancient mask in its collection that the authorities claim was stolen from a warehouse...
- More On The St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/bsyg7 (St Louis Today) "A top Egyptian antiquities official is demanding the St. Louis Art Museum return the museum's mummy mask amid allegations that the mask (one of the museum's most prized antiquities) was stolen from Egypt...
Egypt
The St Louis Mask issue is still alive and kicking
River Front Times (Malcolm Gay)
Some of you may remember that a very beautiful funerary mask, currently located in the St Louis Art Museum, has been the topic of repatriation disputes in the past. I have covered this in a number of posts (click the link for all the available references), and Geoffrey Tassie has provided an articulate summary of some of the issues online (posted February 2006). I thought that this impasse had slipped off the list of Egyptian repatriation grievances, but apparently the issue has been revived by Hawass in an interview.
During a discussion of the recently identified mummy of queen Hatshepsut on the July 9 edition of the Charlie Rose Show, Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, again called out the Saint Louis Art Museum for its refusal to return the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask to Egypt. Hawass contends that the ornate funereal mask, which depicts a woman of the Nineteenth Dynasty, was illegally removed from Egypt after its discovery in 1952. The history of the mask was the subject of "Out of Egypt," a Riverfront Times feature story published early last year. Toward the end of the Rose interview, Hawass stated that although he has
overseen the repatriation of roughly five thousand Egyptian artifacts over the past five years, one prize has eluded him: "We still have one mask in [the] Saint Louis Museum of Art [that was] stolen from Egypt," said Hawass. "The museum does not want to return it."
- 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...
- 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...
- St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/z8qma "The St Louis Mask issue is still alive and in dispute: " Egypt threatened Tuesday to take legal action against a US museum unless it returns an ancient mask in its collection that the authorities claim was stolen from a warehouse...
- More On The St Louis Mask
http://tinyurl.com/bsyg7 (St Louis Today) "A top Egyptian antiquities official is demanding the St. Louis Art Museum return the museum's mummy mask amid allegations that the mask (one of the museum's most prized antiquities) was stolen from Egypt...