I do not believe it. Do the curators at SLAM believe it? Will they publish the full authenticated and documented collecting history? And how do they explain the mask's appearance in Cairo in 1966? Perhaps Jason Busch, the newly appointed deputy director would like to make a comment? Or how about the director, Brent R. Benjamin?He omits to mention the fact that the object quite obviously has an ancient ownership inscription removed which the SLAM-accepted collecting history fails to account for.
This is now 100% about integrity.
UPDATE 14.08.13
David Gill ('SLAM Director: Question of Integrity', August 13, 2013) makes that point again, this time illustrating it with a picture of two faces pointedly superimposed...
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