St. Louis, MO, St. Louis City Museum
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St. Louis, MO, St. Louis Art Museum
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The St Louis branch of the AIA disposed of material from Harageh tomb 124 through Bonhams' auction house in London on 2 October 2014. The lot was withdrawn at the last minute and a private sale made to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, an alabaster head rest from cemetery E at Harageh was sold and disappeared into private hands.
Related archive documents
Relevant publications:
Bianchi, Robert Steven 2013. The treasure of Harageh. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 49, 19-31.
Stevenson, Alice 2016. Conflict antiquities and conflicted antiquities: addressing commercial sales of legally excavated artefacts. Antiquity 90 (349), 229-236.
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