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The Recovered Mummy Mask.
Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Antiquities
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After
four years out of Egypt, a stolen and illegally smuggled mummy mask has been
returned from France.
Shabaan
Abdel Gawad, the general supervisor of the Antiquities Repatriation Sector of
the Ministry of Antiquities, told Ahram Online that the mask dates to the New
Kingdsom and is carved in wood and depicts human facial features. It was stolen
in 2013 along with other artefacts from the Elephantine Antiquities Galleries
in Aswan, when it was subject to looting.
The
mask was discovered in an auction hall in Paris in December 2016 and Egypt
succeeded in recovering it after proving legal possession.
Abdel
Gawad continued that the mask was sent to the Egyptian Embassy in Paris and
arrived to Cairo two days ago.
He
asserted that previously the antiquities ministry was able to recover two items
stolen from the Elephantine Galleries and found in Britain and Germany in March
2015.
These
objects, Abdel Gawad said, are an ivory statue and a wooden ushabti figurine.
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