Hi, it didn't occur to me to post this on the forum until I listened to the Klaus Dona interview today. I have a strange story involving an artifact that I presently own.
My old roommates were brothers and I often went with them to visit their parents. One day as I was at their parents' house, their mother decided to show me a few large shells that her relative found while deep-sea diving in the ocean off the east coast of the US.
While showing me the shells she suddenly said, "Oh yeah, and he also found this little greek statue," and she pulled out a small statue. It definitely had no resemblance to a greek statue, but it looked exactly like a small egyptian sarcophagus. It was worn, but you could still easily see the facial features. It had a few heiroglyphics carved on the surface, and appeared to be made from a brownish stone. It also looked as though it was once covered with a jade green-colored glaze which had largely worn away.
I was amazed, and then she told me that it frightened her so I could have it!
Several years later, I happened to be working at the local science museum, and I asked some of my bosses whom I might talk to about authenticating this statue. They all suggested the director of anthropology, so I contacted this guy one day as I was working. As soon as he got the message he came up to my department and seemed very excited to inspect it, because I mentioned that it had almost an exact resemblance (in both size and design) to several small sarcophagi that they already had in their egypt exhibit.
I did not mention where it was found, because I wanted him to examine the statue on its own merits, and not based upon some preconceived notions that he might have.
We set up a specific date and time where I would bring up the statue and he would have a look at it, and he seemed very excited.
The date came and I went to his office with the artifact in a box. He was not there, I was told. He was at lunch and would be back in about an hour. I was a little miffed at this, because he had picked the time himself, but I decided that he must be one of those absent-minded professors and just waited. And waited. Hours went by and he never returned. The other people in the office didn't know where he went. I eventually left.
Afterwards he wouldn't return my phone calls. I didn't know what caused this weird turn of events, but I do vaguely recall mentioning where this statue was found to one of my bosses, and so perhaps word got around to him and he decided not to inspect it. But if that was the case, he could've at least had the decency to let me know of this conclusion.
Well that's the story. Does anyone here know of someone who is experienced in egyptology or archeology and would be willing to have a look at it?
My old roommates were brothers and I often went with them to visit their parents. One day as I was at their parents' house, their mother decided to show me a few large shells that her relative found while deep-sea diving in the ocean off the east coast of the US.
While showing me the shells she suddenly said, "Oh yeah, and he also found this little greek statue," and she pulled out a small statue. It definitely had no resemblance to a greek statue, but it looked exactly like a small egyptian sarcophagus. It was worn, but you could still easily see the facial features. It had a few heiroglyphics carved on the surface, and appeared to be made from a brownish stone. It also looked as though it was once covered with a jade green-colored glaze which had largely worn away.
I was amazed, and then she told me that it frightened her so I could have it!
Several years later, I happened to be working at the local science museum, and I asked some of my bosses whom I might talk to about authenticating this statue. They all suggested the director of anthropology, so I contacted this guy one day as I was working. As soon as he got the message he came up to my department and seemed very excited to inspect it, because I mentioned that it had almost an exact resemblance (in both size and design) to several small sarcophagi that they already had in their egypt exhibit.
I did not mention where it was found, because I wanted him to examine the statue on its own merits, and not based upon some preconceived notions that he might have.
We set up a specific date and time where I would bring up the statue and he would have a look at it, and he seemed very excited.
The date came and I went to his office with the artifact in a box. He was not there, I was told. He was at lunch and would be back in about an hour. I was a little miffed at this, because he had picked the time himself, but I decided that he must be one of those absent-minded professors and just waited. And waited. Hours went by and he never returned. The other people in the office didn't know where he went. I eventually left.
Afterwards he wouldn't return my phone calls. I didn't know what caused this weird turn of events, but I do vaguely recall mentioning where this statue was found to one of my bosses, and so perhaps word got around to him and he decided not to inspect it. But if that was the case, he could've at least had the decency to let me know of this conclusion.
Well that's the story. Does anyone here know of someone who is experienced in egyptology or archeology and would be willing to have a look at it?