CAIRO, EGYPT (ETN) - HE Farouk Hosni, ke Kuhina moʻomeheu o ʻAigupita, ua hoʻolaha hope loa ua kāpae ka ʻAha Kiʻekiʻe o nā Antiquities (SCA) i ka hola hope i ke kūʻai ʻana o ʻelua mau mea kahiko o ʻAigupita ma Ladana a me Holland, i ka hoʻāʻo e hoʻopakele i ko ʻAigupita. hoʻoilina i hoʻopaʻa ʻia ma ke kānāwai.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo ia, ʻo kekahi o nā mea he kōkua i kākau ʻia mai kahi pā i ka hale kupapaʻu 26th Dynasty of Mutirdis ma Asasif ma ke komohana o Luxor, a ua manaʻo ʻia e kūʻai ʻia aku ma ka Pōʻalima, Mei 1 ma Bonhams, he hale kūʻai ma Lākana.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Kauka Zahi Hawass, ke kākau ʻōlelo nui o ka SCA, ua ʻike ʻia ka hale kupapaʻu i ka makahiki 1969 e ke kanaka Kelemānia Egyptologist ʻo Jan Assmann, nāna i hoʻihoʻi mai ia ma waena o 1973 a me 1974 i ka manawa i ʻike ʻia ai ka ʻāpana. Ua paʻi ʻia kahi kiʻi o ka palapala in situ e Assmann ma Das Grab der Mutirdis i ka makahiki 1977. Aia i loko o ka hōʻoluʻolu kahi palapala hieroglyphic i kākau ʻia ma nā kolamu ʻeono. Loaʻa iā ia kahi cartouche o ka mōʻīwahine 26th Dynasty Queen Nocratice (7th century BC), a me nā inoa like ʻole a me nā inoa o ka mea nona ka hale kupapaʻu.
Ua ʻike ʻia ka hōʻoluʻolu o ka hale kupapaʻu o Mutirdis ma ka palapala kūʻai kūʻai a Bonhams i hoʻokahi pule aku nei. Ma ka pane ʻana, ua hoʻouna ʻo Hawass i kahi leka koʻikoʻi iā Chantelle Waddington o Bonhams e noi ana e kāpae ʻia ke kūʻai ʻana i ke kōkua, ʻoiai ua ʻaihue ʻia a lawe ʻia mai ʻAigupita mai.
Ma ka launa pū ʻana me ka ʻelele o ʻAigupita i Holland, ua lawe ʻia kahi kiʻi ushabti ʻōmaʻomaʻo 19th Dynasty o kahi wahine i kapa ʻia ʻo Hener mai kahi kūʻai kūʻai aku, a e hoʻihoʻi ʻia i kona ʻāina hānau. Ua ʻaihue ʻia kēia kiʻi ushabti mai kahi hale kūʻai ʻo Saqqara a aia i kēia manawa ma ka Hale Hōʻikeʻike ʻo Leiden e kali ana i kāna huakaʻi hoʻi i ʻAigupita ma hope o ka hoʻopuka ʻia ʻana o ka ʻōlelo hoʻoholo hoʻokolokolo o Amsterdam.
He aha e lawe ʻia mai kēia ʻatikala:
- He stated that one of the objects is an inscribed relief removed from a wall in the 26th Dynasty tomb of Mutirdis in Asasif on Luxor's west bank, and was meant to be put on sale Thursday, May 1st at Bonhams, an auction house in London.
- In response, Hawass sent an urgent letter to Chantelle Waddington of Bonhams asking for the sale of the relief to be stopped, as it was stolen and smuggled from Egypt.
- Farouk Hosni, Egypt’s Minister of Culture, announced last that the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) stopped in the last hour the sale of two ancient Egyptian objects in London and Holland, in an attempt to save Egypt's illegally smuggled heritage.
