Paul Barford has drawn attention to the response by SLAM's legal team to the conclusion of the two parallel legal cases.
Patrick McInerney will need to explain when his client was first informed that the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask was derived from Saqqara. How did curators at SLAM respond? Then there is the issue of when (or if) SLAM contacted the Egyptian SCA about the mask. And was the Director of SLAM ever advised to contact Zahi Hawass about the acquisition and the Saqqara link? Did the curator responsible for the acquisition provide misleading or inaccurate information to the Cairo Museum? How was the collecting history authenticated?
The discussion about the mask is far from over.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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