THE ART NEWS PAPER – Provenance research by the MFA Boston revealed that the documents provided when it acquired the object in 1985—including paperwork suggesting that it had been excavated by the Swedish artist Eric Ståhl (1918-99) in 1937—were inauthentic. The coffin was actually excavated by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt from a site at Gurob in 1920. Two years later, as findings from the excavations were divided up between Western institutions, it was sent to the Victoria Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, as the Gustavianum was then known. At some point between then and 1970, it went missing from the museum.
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