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fazer loteria online An Egyptian statue held in a museum in Britain has been sold for £15.76m at Christie's of London, despite protests by the Egyptian government and the Arts Council in England. Northampton Borough Council sold it to help pay for a £14m development of its museum and art gallery.

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The 4,000-year-old limestone statue of an official called Sekhemka is about 75 cm tall. It shows him sitting, reading a fazer loteria online scroll with his much smaller wife kneeling beside him.

It's been sold to help fund an fazer loteria online extension to the town's museum.

Those protesting at the sale included the Egyptian government. Egypt's ambassador to Britain told the BBC a museum should not act like a shop that sells items for profit. Others argue that the sale might fazer loteria online jeopardise Northampton's status as an fazer loteria online accredited museum and the fazer loteria online grants which it gets as a result. But the council's leader, David Mackintosh, said the statue hadn't been fazer loteria online on display for four years and no one had asked to see it in that time.

Museums generally fazer loteria online fight shy fazer loteria online of selling artifacts from their collections partly because sales might discourage people from donating items in future. But in recent years a number of fazer loteria online cash-strapped council museums have sold things or tried to.

In this case, the Marquis of Northampton, whose family gave the statue to the town in 1890, argued that the sale would fazer loteria online breach the terms of the gift. He's now reached a deal and will get just under half of the fazer loteria online proceeds.

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