Egyptian faience hedgehog, from Beni Hasan

An image of Figure/figurine/tomb figure. Faience Hedgehog. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb 655 Beni Hasan, Egypt. Faience, moulded, length, 6.25 cm, width, 3.75 cm, 1976-1793 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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Figure/figurine/tomb figure. Faience Hedgehog. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb 655 Beni Hasan, Egypt. Faience, moulded, length, 6.25 cm, width, 3.75 cm, 1976-1793 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.345.1954
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
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: 96.49kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:10:21 14:48:58

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Ancient Egypt animal animal figure animals antiquity blue faience figure figurine Fitz_ANT hedgehog Middle Kingdom moulded turquoise

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