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Standing at 1.8 metres (six foot), the fine gilded sarcophagus has gained notoriety, apart from for its historical value, for its role at the centre of an international trafficking ring Dating back to the Ptolemaic period (1st-2nd century BC), the ornate wooden coffin was designed for Nedjemankh, a high priest of the ram-headed god Heryshef. The shimmering artefact adorned with gesso reliefs had been housed since 2017 in New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Museum, which purchased it from a Paris art dealer for around 3.5 million euros ($3.8 million). But in February, a Met exhibition which named the high priest had to shut down after being informed the sarcophagus had been plundered by a multi-national trafficking ring. 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