Egyptian head of Nefertiti or a royal princess

An image of Figure. Statue/stelae. Representing the head of the principle royal wife, Nefertiti, or a princess. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Carved sandstone or limestone, length 29 cm, width 17 cm, circa 1352 B.C. to circa 1336 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty, New Kingdom.

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Figure. Statue/stelae. Representing the head of the principle royal wife, Nefertiti, or a princess. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Carved sandstone or limestone, length 29 cm, width 17 cm, circa 1352 B.C. to circa 1336 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty, New Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.GA.4524.1943
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1009 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 135.49kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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14th Century African Ancient Egypt antiquity BC carved Egyptian faces female figure Fitz_ANT fragment head heads housewife limestone Nefertiti New Kingdom princess royal royalty sandstone sculpture statue stela stelae wife woman

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