, A faience broad collar at the Royal Ontario Museum, no. 910.48.15, acquired by Charles Trick Currelly in 1909, perhaps from Petrie's excavations at Amarna. -A complete(?) collar in the British Museum, EA 59334, found in 1926 'beyond' S35.4, a large enclosure in the North Suburb at Amarna, and given by the Egypt Exploration Society to the museum in 1929. 63 -A complete, restrung collar in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, JE 53023, found during Frankfort's excavations at Amarna during the 1928-1929 campaign in the North Suburb house U36.25. A wellknown photograph shows J. D. S. Pendlebury proudly displaying the collar on his bare chest. 64 -Elements from a broad collar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amarna, now at the Petrie Museum, UC1957, p.65
, Much more recently two collars surfaced on the art market that also exhibit similarities to the faience jewellery from Amarna and Tutankhamun's tomb. One was auctioned at Bonham's in London on 16 April 2015 66 as part of the Scheps Collection (Switzerland). The other was offered for sale by the London dealer Artemission (item no. 25.25985) and includes beads from three different collections (Lady Dale, p.67
, Collar from Carter's collection. Brussels, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, E.7534. After Freed, vol.16, 1981.
, seven further collars were given to the museum by Percy Edward Newberry's widow, Essie Winifred: EA 65615 and EA 65617-65622. These are supposed to come from the Valley of the Kings. Newberry's archaeological activity in the Valley of the Kings, however, was limited to his participation in the publication of tombs KV 46 (Yuya and Tuya) and KV 43 (Thutmose IV) under the direction of Th. M. Davis. It is doubtful that this jewellery has anything to do with either tomb, and hard to see why Davis should have given such rare pieces to Newberry. As Carter was very close to the Newberrys between, pp.459-60, 1932.
, 28-29 O/77 in the Egypt Exploration Society archives. The necklace must be object 29/400. See Frankfort and Pendlebury, vol.18, 1933.
, Thanks to Yasmine al-Chalzy, assistant to the Minister of Antiquities of Egypt, and with the help of Eman Amin, I can offer the following list of items returned this way
, Gold plaque with openwork design showing Tutankhamun on chariot, JE, vol.87847
, Gold plaque with openwork design showing Tutankhamun as a sphinx, JE, vol.87848
, -12) Eight silver nails with gold heads from coffin SR 1/3540-3547(a-b). A ninth nail, JE 87850i was at the British Museum for analysis from the time of the tomb's discovery until March 1984, when T. G. H. James, then keeper of its Egyptian department, brought it to Cairo. Compare with, Gold plaque with openwork design showing Tutankhamun as a sphinx, vol.87849
, Bronze tenon from coffin of Tutankhamun, with cartouche of the king, JE, vol.87851
, Faience shabti with khat headdress and cartouches of Tutankhamun, JE, vol.87852
, SR 1/424 = Carter no. 602f (30), JE, vol.87853
, Dark blue faience shabti with cartouche of Tutankhamun, JE, vol.87854
, Faience nemset libation vase, JE, vol.87855
, Blue faience cup with cartouche of Tutankhamun, JE, vol.87856
, Blue faience ankh-sign with cartouche of Tutankhamun, JE, vol.87857
, Thanks to documentation the Metropolitan Museum of Art provided to press at the time of the return, the list can be established as follows : (1-2) Finger rings with the prenomen of Tutankhamun, Ex MMA
, Nail from the second coffin of Tutankhamun
, Fragments of wood from the inside of the innermost shrine of Tutankhamun, where they lay on the floor as they had fallen during burial
, Sample of hardened substance in a glass beaker (substance is possibly a resinous material applied to the innermost coffin and mummy inside Tutankhamun's tomb)
, Rosette (from pall which hung within outermost shrine in Burial Chamber of tomb of Tutankhamun). Ex MMA 35, p.12
, Fragments of matting from the doorway of the outermost shrine, part of the matting with which the stone floor of the Burial Chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun was covered, Ex MMA, vol.35, issue.9, p.16
, Textile specimen from a large bag whose flap had been tied and sealed with the king's name (bag contained 20 or more scepters, staves, and walking sticks)
, Ex MMA 47.58.1. This is Spink & Son probate listing no. 16: 'small basalt dog'; cf. Phillips 1948, fig. 17; Reeves, 1997.
, Ex MMA 47.58.4. This is Spink & Son probate listing no. 26: 'small lapis-lazuli Sphinx (one foreleg missing), 14" long'; cf. Hayes 1959, 182, fig. 101, middle righ
, Further exploration of public and private collections will surely yield more missing bits of Tutankhamun's jewellery. Sale catalogues and the art market should be systematically scanned for candidate objects. Recognition of relevant pieces is complicated by the modern restringings of beads, which are often fanciful and baseless
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, Broad collar with additional ring beads and pendants, purple-blue faience
, Ex MMA 49.105.2. For some of these objects, see Hoving, 1978.
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