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Auction of Harageh artifacts averted by Met purchase
The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought the Treasure of Harageh, a 37 piece 1900 B C Egyptian collection found by Sir Flinders Petrie, preventing a planned public sale condemned by historians. The St. Louis Society had planned to sell to cover storage costs, drawing ethical rebuke from the Archaeological Institute and experts who warned private sales erase research context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Harageh
William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Fayum
U.S
Bonhams
St. Louis Society of the Archaeological Institute of America
St. Louis Art Museum
Washington University
Archaeological Institute
Alice Stevenson
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
London
Howard Wimmer
St. Louis Group
Doug Boin
Saint Louis University
Met
Diana Craig Patch