Coffin of Nedjemankh (Q63185674)
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gilded ancient Egyptian coffin from the late Ptolemaic Period
- Nedjemankh coffin
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Coffin of Nedjemankh |
gilded ancient Egyptian coffin from the late Ptolemaic Period |
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When Bogdanos’s investigators looked into the Met’s acquisition process for Nedjemankh, they found instance after instance of credulity-straining sloppiness. In May 2016, Diana Craig Patch, the Met’s curator for Egyptian art, received an email from Richard Semper, a Paris-based dealer, pitching a ‘hard piece I have for sale’. It was Nedjemankh’s coffin: Semper and his partner, Christophe Kunicki, wanted €4.5 million. (English)
March 2022
February 2019
2018
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Bogdanos spent the rest of 2018 running a grand jury investigation into the Met’s acquisition. For years he had been on the trail of a powerful and sophisticated antiquities smuggling network that operated with impunity across the Middle East, Europe and the United States (English)
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Patch flew to Paris in December to view the coffin. She approved of what she saw and began the formal provenance research needed to get the Met board’s approval. Kunicki and Semper sent her document after document with redactions, gaps, errors and inconsistencies: two translations of an Egyptian export licence with conflicting dates, and two versions in Arabic, both missing the signature of the Egyptian antiquities authority and bearing a stamp of ‘A.R. Egypt’ for the Arab Republic of Egypt before it existed (from 1958 until September 1971, Egypt was known as the United Arab Republic), as well as contradictory accounts of the coffin’s present owner, alternately one ‘Madame Chatz’ of Switzerland, and Serop Simonian of Hamburg, a dealer at the heart of the smuggling network Bogdanos was tracking. (English)
2017
2019
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In September 2019 an NYPD motorcade escorted Nedjemankh to JFK airport and the coffin was flown back to Egypt. (English)
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Wikipedia(3 entries)
- arwiki تابوت نجم عنخ
- enwiki Coffin of Nedjemankh
- idwiki Peti mati Nedjemankh