Coffin of Amenemhet I

News stories are circulating, including by the Egyptian state service, that a piece of the coffin of Amenemhet I is to be returned to Egypt, thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which purchased the piece with the thought of giving it back to Egypt.

The pink granite fragment is, in fact, a piece of a naos meant to hold a statue of a god or goddess and not the coffin of a king.