There has been renewed covered of the
Egyptian mummy mask excavated at Saqqara acquired by the
Saint Louis Art Museum. The mask has parallel collecting histories. This is a mask that the museum implicitly asserts was
sold in Brussels in 1952 and allegedly acquired by the Kaloterna collection in 1962. Yet
amazingly the mask was in Cairo in 1966, but was acquired by an anonymous Swiss collector around 1967.
I do not believe it. Do the curators at SLAM believe it?
Will they publish the full authenticated and documented collecting history? And how do they explain the mask's appearance in Cairo in 1966?
Perhaps
Jason Busch, the newly appointed deputy director would like to make a comment? Or how about the director,
Brent R. Benjamin?
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