The 4000 year old Spinning Statuette at Manchester Museum

So I think one of the hottest news this week has been about this particular statuette currently housed at the Egyptian Worlds Collection at Manchester Museum. 

Can you spot which is the statuette everyone's buzzing about?

The statuette is said to date back to approximately 1800 years ago and was originally found in a mummy's tomb, and has been on exhibition at the Manchester Museum for the past 80 years. 

According to Manchester Evening News, Dr. Campbell Price - the museum's curator- said that "I noticed one day that it had turned around. I thought it was strange because it is in a case and I am the only one who has a key...I put it back but then the next day it had moved again. We set up a time-lapse video and, although the naked eye can't see it, you can clearly see it rotate on the film." 

So what has caused the 10-inch tall statuette to spin? Some have speculated that the statuette has been caught spinning because of the foot traffic vibration in the museum - sounds rational to me but if the artefact has been on display for the past 80 years and only now has it started moving due to vibrations, I think that's rather odd. Rational but odd.

Another more interesting mysterious suggestion for why the statuette has been caught spinning is because the statuette was found in a mummy's tomb and is a depiction of the deceased. Now the Ancient Egyptians believed that the body of the dead had to be preserved because the ka of the deceased would roam around the earth during the day but had to return to its physical body during the night (or cease to exist). In case of some unfortunate circumstances i.e. the deceased's physical body was destroyed, there were statuettes resembling the deceased available for the  ka  to rest in during the night. What with all the looting going on of late, could it be possible that the mummy of the deceased has been destroyed and the ka  has found a new home in this statuette in Manchester Museum?

OR is it the Curse of the Mummy/Pharaoh haunting the museum, and the spinning statuette is the first of many spooky events to occur?

What do you think?

Check out the YouTube video of the statuette spinning (recorded by the Manchester Museum):

http://youtu.be/S0fbWm9tdHE

-chelle-