Hind quarters of a sphinx, from El-Amarna, Egypt

An image of Hind-quarters of sphinx, recumbent. Limestone, depth 0.084 m, length 0.115 m, width 0.167 m. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: outside west entrance to temenos El-Amarna, Egypt. Eighteenth Dynasty; New Kingdom.

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Hind-quarters of sphinx, recumbent. Limestone, depth 0.084 m, length 0.115 m, width 0.167 m. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: outside west entrance to temenos El-Amarna, Egypt. Eighteenth Dynasty; New Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.77.1933
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 100.06kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2013:04:05 15:05:26

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Ancient Egypt animal figure antiquity BC Egyptian figure Fitz_ANT fragment limestone New Kingdom recumbent sphinx

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