Reuters
Goals rained in for Manchester City and Manchester United but Juergen Klopp’s first game in charge of Liverpool was solid rather than spectacular with his new side drawing 0-0 at Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on Saturday.
Raheem Sterling’s hat-trick and a double for Wilfried Bony helped leaders City to a 5-1 home win against Bournemouth while a few miles down the motorway, United got back to winning ways with a 3-0 thumping of Everton – Wayne Rooney scoring United’s third, his first away league goal for 11 months.
City lead second-placed United by two points with West Ham United a further two adrift.
Liverpool’s sixth draw in seven matches in all competitions left them down in ninth place, but there was reason for optimism for Klopp who replaced sacked Brendan Rodgers this month.
“0-0 is not my dream result but it is okay,” Klopp said.
Chelsea steadied the ship with a routine 2-0 home win against struggling Aston Villa, although they were helped by a poor goalkeeping error by Brad Guzan and Alan Hutton’s own goal.
High-flying West Ham notched their fourth away win of the season, Manuel Lanzini and Dimitri Payet scoring late in a 3-1 victory at London rivals Crystal Palace who played half the match with 10 men after Dwight Gayle was red-carded.
West Ham’s former manager Sam Allardyce’s first game in charge of Sunderland ended in a dismal 1-0 defeat at West Bromwich Albion, leaving them second from bottom.
Southampton led 2-0 against Leicester City but were pegged back and drew 2-2.
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The smuggler
Eldarir had arrived at JFK in January 2020 with three suitcases, containing goods he valued at $300, when he was directed to a search area.
Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the deceased for the afterlife.
Also found was a cartouche of a Ptolemaic king on a relief that was originally part of a royal building or temple.
The largest single group of items found in Eldarir’s cases were 400 shabtis, or figurines.
Khouli conviction
Khouli smuggled items into the US by making false declarations to customs about the country of origin and value of the items.
According to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he provided “false provenances which stated that [two] Egyptian antiquities were part of a collection assembled by Khouli's father in Israel in the 1960s” when in fact “Khouli acquired the Egyptian antiquities from other dealers”.
He was sentenced to one year of probation, six months of home confinement and 200 hours of community service in 2012 after admitting buying and smuggling Egyptian antiquities, including coffins, funerary boats and limestone figures.
For sale
A number of other items said to come from the collection of Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir are currently or recently for sale.
Their provenance is described in near identical terms as the British Museum shabti: bought from Salahaddin Sirmali, "authenticated and appraised" by Hossen Rashed, then imported to the US in 1948.
- An Egyptian Mummy mask dating from 700BC-30BC, is on offer for £11,807 ($15,275) online by a seller in Mexico
- A coffin lid dating back to 664BC-332BC was offered for sale by a Colorado-based art dealer, with a starting price of $65,000
- A shabti that was on sale through a Chicago-based coin dealer, dating from 1567BC-1085BC, is up for $1,950
