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Head of an Egyptian king, wearing Nemes Headdress

Image attached to E.2.1974

An image of Head of a King, wearing Nemes Headdress, Senwosret I (?). An archaizing 'portrait' of a ruler. Basalt. Dimensions: depth 8 cm, length 8.4 cm, width 7.3 cm. Egyptian. Twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth Dynasty. Circa 747 B.C. to 525 B.C.

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Head of a King, wearing Nemes Headdress, Senwosret I (?). An archaizing 'portrait' of a ruler. Basalt. Dimensions: depth 8 cm, length 8.4 cm, width 7.3 cm. Egyptian. Twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth Dynasty. Circa 747 B.C. to 525 B.C.

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  • Accession Number: E.2.1974
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/27.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 852 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 688.69kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 27/1
  • Captured: 2011:04:06 14:43:58

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