Egypt
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- More Re Return Of Imesy Sarcophagus
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) The two-piece wooden and plastered sarcophagus from Egypt's 21st Dynasty (ca. 1070-945 B.C.) is brightly painted with clear hieroglyphic writing on it. It was created for an elite male named Imesy. The coffin's...
- More Re Return Of Imesy Sarcophagus To Egypt
npr Thanks to Tony Marson for the above link. A 3,000-year-old stolen sarcophagus is returning home to Egypt after a trip around the world. At a ceremony Wednesday at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., U.S. authorities returned the sarcophagus,...
- Third Intermediate Period Coffin Seized In Miami
Looting Matters (David Gill) A Third Intermediate Coffin belonging to the 21st Dynasty Pharaoh Ames has been confiscated in Miami ("Egypt wants a 3,000-year-old coffin back from US", AP March 22, 2009). Zahi Hawass claims that the wooden coffin was removed...
- Return Of The Sarcophagus
Here we see the repatriation ceremony including Dr. Zahi Hawass for that twenty first dynasty coffin seized in Miami last year. The coffin may not be much to look at but the video is interesting....
- A Pharaoh's Coffin?
Apparently Dr. Hawass said of this coffin that it belonged to a king of the twenty first dynasty though clearly this is not a coffin of a pharaoh and I have some doubt Dr. Hawass would have said that. The coffin was confiscated in Florida and is about...
Egypt
US to return 21st Dynasty sarcophagus to Egypt
Discovery News (Rossella Lorenzi)
U.S. authorities will return a beautifully painted 3,000-year-old coffin to Egypt, Egyptian Culture Minister Faruq Hosni said on Monday.
Decorated with colorful religious scenes, the ornamented coffin contains the remains of a man called Imesy.
Zahi Hawass, the secretary general of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) had said last year that the coffin likely belongs to pharaoh Ames of the 21st Dynasty, which ruled over Egypt from 1070-945 B.C.
The nearly 5-foot-long wooden coffin was confiscated by U.S. customs officials at Miami International Airport from a Spanish merchant in 2008.
The dealer did not possess the necessary documentation to prove ownership of the artifact.
ABC News
The coffin, described as one of the "most beautiful plastered and painted" pieces found in Egypt, was seized by customs officials upon its arrival at a Florida airport in October 2008, the ministry said in a statement.
An antiquities dealer named as Felix Cerera did not have ownership documents for it, prompting customs officials to suspect smuggling, the statement said.
An investigation by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security found the coffin had been smuggled out of Egypt in 1884 and had been exhibited in Madrid in 2007. Egypt requested its return in 2009.
Google/AFP
US authorities will return to Egypt an ornately painted pharaonic coffin smuggled out of the country more than 125 years ago, Egyptian Culture Minister Faruq Hosni said on Monday.The 3,000 year-old casket, which was painted with inscriptions to help its occupant in the afterlife, would be handed over to Egypt's antiquities chief Zahi Hawass next month, Hosni said in a statement.
Egypt had last year asked the United States to return the wooden coffin, which dates back to the 21st dynasty (1081-931 BC) and contains the remains of a man named Emus but about whom little else was known.
On Monday, Hawass said US Immigration and Customs had contacted him in 2008 about the coffin after confiscating it from a Spanish merchant who had shipped it to Florida for sale.
- More Re Return Of Imesy Sarcophagus
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) The two-piece wooden and plastered sarcophagus from Egypt's 21st Dynasty (ca. 1070-945 B.C.) is brightly painted with clear hieroglyphic writing on it. It was created for an elite male named Imesy. The coffin's...
- More Re Return Of Imesy Sarcophagus To Egypt
npr Thanks to Tony Marson for the above link. A 3,000-year-old stolen sarcophagus is returning home to Egypt after a trip around the world. At a ceremony Wednesday at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., U.S. authorities returned the sarcophagus,...
- Third Intermediate Period Coffin Seized In Miami
Looting Matters (David Gill) A Third Intermediate Coffin belonging to the 21st Dynasty Pharaoh Ames has been confiscated in Miami ("Egypt wants a 3,000-year-old coffin back from US", AP March 22, 2009). Zahi Hawass claims that the wooden coffin was removed...
- Return Of The Sarcophagus
Here we see the repatriation ceremony including Dr. Zahi Hawass for that twenty first dynasty coffin seized in Miami last year. The coffin may not be much to look at but the video is interesting....
- A Pharaoh's Coffin?
Apparently Dr. Hawass said of this coffin that it belonged to a king of the twenty first dynasty though clearly this is not a coffin of a pharaoh and I have some doubt Dr. Hawass would have said that. The coffin was confiscated in Florida and is about...