List of missing objects from the Cairo Museum

List of missing objects from the Cairo Museum after the looting of 28th Jan, posted on the SCA website earlier today. It comes to 54 objects now, there are more Tutankhamun and Amarna objects missing than was originally admitted. Note the museum is reticent about where they were in the collections. Note also the number that are not accompanied by decent photos enabling them to be identified should they turn up on the market. Not that they are likely to of course.






The list of Objects Missing from the Egyptian Museum, as released by the SCA, March 15th 2011 is as follows:

Tutankhamun galleries:

Gilded Wooden Figure of Tutankhamun on a Skiff, Throwing a Harpoon ( much of the broken off figure is missing) - Carter no 275c?

Gilded Wood Statue of Tutankhamun Wearing the Red Crown - Carter no 296b?

Gilded Wooden Statue of Menkaret Carrying a Mummified Tutankhamun (the figurine of Tutankhamun is still missing) - Carter no 296a

Gilded Wood Fanstock - Carter no 600?

Gilded Bronze Trumpet with Painted Wooden Core - Carter no 050gg

Yuya and Thuya Galleries:

Plastered and Gilded Wooden Shabti of Thuya with Nine Lines of Incised inscription

Plastered Wooden Shabti of Thuya Covered with Silver Leaf, Incised with Nine Lines of Inscription

Wooden Shabti of Yuya with Ten Lines of Inscription in Yellow

Painted and Gilded Wooden Shabti of Yuya with Seven Lines of Incised Inscription

Wooden Shabti of Yuya with Eleven Lines of Inscription in Yellow

Wooden Shabti of Yuya with Nine Lines of Incised Inscription in Yellow

Wooden Shabti of Yuya with Nine Lines of Incised Inscription in Blue

Uninscribed Calcite Shabti of Yuya

Ebony Shabti of Yuya with Seven Lines of Inscription in Yellow

Painted Wooden Shabti of Yuya with Two Vertical Columns of Incised Blue

[five shabtis left behind in the Museum]

[heart scarab recovered]

Amarna Galleries:

[Statuette of Akhenaton recovered]

Unfinished Limestone Statue of Nefertiti as an Offering Bearer

Red Granite Striding Statue of an Amarna Princess

Quartzite Head of an Amarna Princess

Steatite Statue of Bes on a Calcite Base

Quartzite Statue of an Amarna Princess

Steatite Statue of a Scribe with Thoth as a Baboon on a Limestone Base

Some Other Unspecified Galleries:

Bronze Seated Statue of Anubis

Bronze Seated Statue of Bastet

Bronze Striding Statue of the God Hapi

Bronze Top of a Sceptre in the Shape of the Goddess Hat-Mehit Wearing a Fish Headdress (Lates Nilotica)

Bronze Striding Statue of Onuris

Bronze Seated Statue of Osiris

Bronze Standing Statue of Osiris

Schist Striding Statue of Neferhotep

Bronze Fish on a Stand

Bronze Standing Statue of Sobek in the form of a Crocodile-headed Man

Bronze Striding Statue of the Goddess Neith

Inscribed Bronze Seated Statue of a Cat (Bastet) Dedicated by Pediamen

Inscribed Bronze Striding Statue of Harpocrates Wearing the Andjety Diadem

Bronze Statue of an Apis Bull Wearing the Sun Disk and Uraeus

Limestone Statue of a Recumbent Bull

Inscribed Bronze Sceptre of Ankhusiri

Terracotta Plaque in the Form of a Bed

Bronze False Beard

Bronze False Beard

Wooden Model Vase

Painted Limestone Statue of a Seated Man

Bronze Statue of an Apis Bull with a Sun Disk Between its Horns

Striding Bronze Figure of Nakht

Painted Limestone Shabti of an Official

Faience Round Bead Bracelet

Gold, Stone and Faience Collar

Faience Bead Collar with Pendants in the Shape of Lily

String of 28 Coral Beads

String of Gold Beads and Figurines

Part of a Lapis Lazuli Girdle of Merytamun B

Necklace Composed of 44 "Glass Beads Moulded in Metal" (eh?)

10 Faience Amulets and a Faience Bead

Painted Limestone Standing Statue of a Young Woman Wearing a Large Wig.

The descriptions are hyper-laconic to the point of vagueness, and the photos in the pdf leave a lot to be desired as a source of information about the distinguishing features of the objects missing (how many seated figures of Osiris are out there in the global market?). In fact they are crap. Given the Egyptian Museum's no-camera policy, reserving the right to take photos of the museum's objects for themselves, you would think that they would at least have some decent photos of them, but like keeping the Museum galleries clean and tidy and keeping a track of what is is which case, and keeping thieves out, even in this digital age, object photography seems not to be the forte of the Egyptian Museum curatorial and technical staff.

One of the missing objects (photo by Paul Lombardo from Eloquent Peasant, via CultureGrrl)