The Coffin of Nedjemankh is shown in a crate on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019 in New York, before it is returned to Egypt. The gilded coffin that was featured at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is on its way back to Egypt after it was determined to be a looted antiquity. (AP Photo/Michael R. Sisak)

Year of Object(s) Creation: 100 B.C. (approximate)
Estimated Value ($USD): 4,000,000
Object Type(s): Carving, Funerary Object, Sarcophagus
Object Material(s): gold, wood
Provenience Nation: Egypt
Provenience Location: Minya region, Egypt
Year Removed from Findspot: 2011 (approximate)

Provenance
Start Year: 2011
End Year: 2017
Circumstance of Acquisition: alleged smuggling through UAE, Germany, France
Nation: Egypt
Location:
Start Year: 2017
End Year: 2019
Circumstance of Acquisition: good-faith purchase by Metropolitan Museum from a French antiquities dealer in Paris
Nation: United States
Location: New York

Egyptian Gilded Coffin Of Nedjemankh


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Egyptian Gilded Coffin of Nedjemankh

Case Status: Object(s) relinquished
Year Claim Initiated: 2019
Year Claim Resolved: 2019
Means of Resolution: Action by Respondent's Govt.

Complainant Name: Government of Egypt
Complainant Nation: Egypt
Complainant Nation Economy: In Transition
Complainant Type: Public: Government

Respondent Name: Metropolitan Museum
Respondent Nation: United States
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Private: Institution

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