Egptian painted coffin with the name of the draughtsman

An image of Funerary Equipment. Coffin. Painted wooden outer coffin, sides and ends, inscribed with the name of the draughtsman Heta-User or Userheta. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Beni Hasan; tomb 177. Wood, painted. Middle Kingdom.

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Funerary Equipment. Coffin. Painted wooden outer coffin, sides and ends, inscribed with the name of the draughtsman Heta-User or Userheta. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Beni Hasan; tomb 177. Wood, painted. Middle Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.67.1903
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 44
Camera: NIKON D800
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 835 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 205.10kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2015:07:16 11:57:59

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20th Century afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC beni hasan blue coffin Egyptian Fitz_ANT funerary equipment hieroglyphics hieroglyphs Middle Kingdom painted red wood wooden

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