Date Sent: 22-FEB-1996 10:14:20.69
RE: Your communication of Wed, 21 Feb 1996 10:54:00 +0000

Our curator of Egyptian art, Nancy Thomas (at LACMA), adds two more suggestions:

        * an American Egyptologist working in Egypt for the summer - she
recommends Dr. David Silverman, University of Pennsylvania Museum,
Philadelphia.
        * or contact the "American Research Center in Egypt" (located in New
York and Cairo) tel. 212 529-6661 and ask to have someone return the fragment
to Egypt.
         Good luck!

         Diana Folsom
         Systems Educator
         LACMA
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 >Good news: perhaps other looters will get a conscience in their old age.

 >Try the Cultural Attache at the nearest Egyptian Embassy (Washington DC
 >in the case of the USA) as a first step.  Alternatively they could
 >contact the Egyptian Museums and Antiquities Service direct:

 >        Prof. Dr. M. Abddel Halim Nur El Din
 >        Secretary-General, Supreme Council of Antiquities
 >        4d Kakhri Abdel Nour Street
 >        Abbasiya
 >        Cairo, Egypt.

 >        tel. +20-2-839.637  fax. +20-2-283.1117

 >(Prof. Nur El Din is also President of the Egyptian National Committee of
 >ICOM.)

 >It is important to organise such returns directly or indirectly through
 >diplomatic channels to ensure that the export from the present country is
 >does not break the "holding" countries own export control and licencing
 >laws.  (The fact that the object is being returned to its country of
 >origin does not automatically over-ride national antiquities and art
 >export laws, though in the case of a relatively recent theft or illegal
 >export I think it would be almost inconceivable for a national authority
 >to refuse an export licence.)

 >Patrick Boylan

 >================================================================

 >On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Rebecca Andrews wrote:

 >> I rec'd an anon phone call from a person who apparently removed some
 >> material from an Egyptian pyramid 20 years ago, and now would like to
 >> return it to its point of origin.  Rather than involving our museum, I
 >> thought that they could do it themselves, but I am at a loss as to how to
 >> best direct this person.  Please send me names of institutions or
 >> individuals that they could contact, if you know of any.  Thanks for your
 >> help!
 >>