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This is interesting.

Sept 05

Art collector Joanne Salvador, a resident of Linden-hurst, never imagined she would be the proud owner of a rare portrait sculpture of Pharaoh Tutankhamen.

"This is the Holy Grail of Egyptology," Salvador said of the 3,300-year-old head that was once part of a statue of Tutankhamen.

Salvador, an adult education teacher Egyptology classes, has loved art since she was eight......

Read it here......

If it for some reason is tapken off the internet, alert me right away because I have saved it all and can place it here.

   From dr g

Oct 2005

See, here is the problem; there is a real one and the guy found what the recreator used as his model ....they mention it in the paper and don't come to the same conclusion.

"After obtaining the portrait sculpture, Salvador researched more about the piece. While flipping through publications, she found an exact match for the head she was holding in her hand.

"I knew what it was, but I did not know it existed in publications," Salvador said.

The head is inscribed with the royal cartouche, hieroglyphs, that read "Nebkheprure," Tutankhamen’s throne name. The same statue, standing eight feet tall with the same inscription, exists in the Cairo Museum, according to Salvador.

Well, sort  of.....

She must mean this massive fragmentary statue of Tutankhamun expropriated by Aye and Horemheb, his immediate successors.

All in all there  is greater similarity with

this one in the Metropolitan Museum.

We put some clues together and tracked it down," Salvador said. "No one knew it existed because it was kept wrapped up for 60 years."

Well....

I did some digging...and....very interesting.

"No one knew it existed because it was kept wrapped up for 60 years."

Well.............this is where it was  at two o'clock on the afternoon of Wednesday the 15th of October 1947.

The head was found at Thebes But was it?

I think I would like to leave it like that.

This is just a tiny fragment of the contentious story and debate which has raged for nearly 60 years.

Far be it for me to encourage you to leave the cosy warmth of  this website but a google search on M A Mansoor collection will bring up endless arguments and a family which has made it the work of several generations to defend what to my eyes, is the indefensible.

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