Overseer of the Great Pyramid Returns?
The return of the seated staute of Hemiunu, overseer of the construction of the Great Pyramid has been confirmed. On Sunday the Roman and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim, Germany stated that it would lend the prized statue to Egypt for the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2013.
However, there are already doubts over whether this loan will go ahead after Zahi Hawass has stated that he expects the statue to remain in Egypt after the loan.
Kristina Zappen of the Hildesheim Museum said there had never been any official request from Cairo to give the statue back. She confirmed an agreement had been reached on the 2013 loan and she added that it provided for the statue to then return to Germany.
Hildesheim was not even considering giving the statue back, she added. The whole museum collection was of honest provenance.
“Every item in our collection arrived in Germany legally,” she said. If the Egyptian government were to officially question the statue’s ownership, the museum would have to reconsider the loan.
“The whole thing would have to be thought out again,” she said.
Source:
German Museum Confirms Loan of Disputed Statue to Egypt
Photograph of the face of Hemiuni by kairoinfo4u under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial ShareAlike 2.0 license.
Related posts:
- Friday Photo: Overseer of the Great Pyramid It’s been a while since I posted a photo of...
- Secret Chamber Discovered in the Great Pyramid Corners of the internal ramp Breaking in the news this...
- Great Pyramid Measurements Egyptologist William Flinders Petrie’s meticulous measurements of the Great Pyramid...
- Secret Passages in the Great Pyramid Bob Brier in front of the Great Pyramid A few...
- Exact Date of Great Pyramid Determined Pyramid of Khufu. Stevesheriw. CC By NC It seems that...
Follow me on Twitter
