Sydney Bernard Burney CBE (20 March 1878[1] – 3 January 1951)[2] was a British art and antiquities dealer and collector based in London.
[5] He donated a limestone Etruscan urn to the British Museum.
[6] Burney owned the crystal skull, later known as the Mitchell-Hedges skull, which was later sold by his son at auction at Sotheby's.
[7] He sold an artefact known as the Burney Relief, later called "Queen of the Night," when it was acquired by the British Museum in 2003.
The authenticity of this artefact has been questioned by some on stylistic grounds, though most reject this assertion.