Egypt on Wednesday condemned a planned London auction by Christie’s of a head from a statue of Pharoah Tutankhamun, which is set to proceed despite Cairo’s concerns over paperwork.
Egypt’s ambassador to the UK “regrets that the auction house intends to conduct a new sale involving Egyptian artefacts tomorrow , including the head of Tutankhamun, without the backing of papers”, said a joint statement by its foreign and antiquities ministries late Wednesday. Christie’s expects the 28.5-centimetre brown quartzite relic from the Valley of the Kings to fetch more than £4 million .
“We would not offer for sale any object where there was concern over ownership or export,” Christie’s said in a recent statement released to AFP, noting that the Egyptian embassy had been notified in advance of the planned sale.
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