Painted coffin of a dog, from Beni Hasan

An image of Funerary equipment. Coffin. This dog was given his own tomb and is named in the coffin text five times. His names was 'Heb'. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Beni Hasan. Wood, height 21 cm, length 70 cm, width 27 cm. Eleventh Dynasty; Twelfth Dynasty; Middle Kingdom, 2119-1794 B.C.

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Funerary equipment. Coffin. This dog was given his own tomb and is named in the coffin text five times. His names was 'Heb'. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Beni Hasan. Wood, height 21 cm, length 70 cm, width 27 cm. Eleventh Dynasty; Twelfth Dynasty; Middle Kingdom, 2119-1794 B.C.

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Accession Number: E.47.1902
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 683 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 93.96kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2006:04:27 17:30:57

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