Lee Rosenbaum reports that the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has acknowledged that it has 8 Egyptian pieces on loan from the Lewis collection ("Virginia MFA’s Lewis Loans: More on Museums & the Indicted Egyptian Antiquities Collector", July 15, 2011).
Like Rosenbaum, I am still waiting to get a response from the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University, and from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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