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38 An interview with Robert Lustig (5 September 1988, New York) referred to in Gamwell 1989, 30, n. 17. 39 Cf. Reeves, in Gamwell and Wells 1989, 58. 40 Ibid. Lustig claimed in the interview that he had had these objects authenticated in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, but the documents are certainly lacking; Gamwell 1989, 30, n. 17. 41 According to the Museum's archive, Antal appealed to the Museum at least twice more: still in January 1943, Antal sold a bronze figurine depicting an ape, and in 1951 he offered some canopic lids, vessels and potteries of various kinds and a stuccoed hand of a cartonnage in exchange for a wooden shabti and a mummy of a child. I am indebted to Péter Gaboda, István Nagy and Mrs Sándor Dörögdi for their help in retrieving the relevant documents from the archive. 42 No transactional document of any kind was found that would confirm the selling of the artefact. I would like to thank Christian Huber (Vienna, Freud Museum) for checking their archives for me. 43 Freud was famous for giving his friends and relatives objects from his collection as special gifts. For instance, in 1913 at the first meeting of the "Committee" (a group that included Freud himself, Abraham, Ferenczi, Jones, Rank, Sachs and from 1919, Eitingon), Freud celebrated the event by giving each member an intaglio stone set in a ring; for an illustration, see FM 5046 in Gamwell and Wells 1989, 123. 44 Personal communication. I am very grateful to Michael Molnar for this reference. 45 E.g., a number of letters composed in 1910 dealt with minor archaeological fieldwork at Dunapentele and discussed at length matters like the price of antiquities and obtaining objects from the excavation : Sigmund Freud - Ferenczi Sándor: Levelezés l/l (1908-1911) [Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi: Correspondence 1/1 (1908-1911)J, trans. G. Berényi et al., Budapest 2001, passim. 46 Height: 7.0 cm on the right side and 7.5 cm on the left; width: 11.3 cm on the top and 11.0 cm below. The thickness varies between 0.3 and 0.5 cm. The wood has not been identified yet. Ancient Egyptian writing boards were generally made of sycamore, more rarely of jujube (Ziziphus spina christi). For a general overview of their manufacture and use, see P. Vernus, "Schreibtafel," in Lexikon der Ägyptologie, vol. 5, eds. E. Otto and W. Helck, Wiesbaden 1984, cols. 703-10; Parkinson and Quirke 1995, 19-20. 47 A comparable shaping of the lower edge can be seen on the inscribed writing board from the Saqqara tomb of Ipiankhu, see C. M. Firth and B. Gunn, Teti Pyramid Cemeteries I, Cairo 1926, 272, fig. 102. 48 It is Heqanakht letter no. 1. See J. P. Allen, The Heqanakht Papyri, New York 2002, pi. 5. For a close palaeographical parallel, see P MMA 22.3.516 ro, col. 5. 49 Paris, Louvre, inv. no. E 2709, see n. 25. above.