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Wooden head from an Egyptian coffin

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An image of Funerary equipment. Coffin. Head from coffin. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Egypt; 840 (?). Wood, length 36 cm, 1550-1295 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Funerary equipment. Coffin. Head from coffin. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Egypt; 840 (?). Wood, length 36 cm, 1550-1295 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty.

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  • Accession Number: E.49.1926
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 768 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 102.07kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1

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afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC coffin Egyptian faces Fitz_ANT fragment funerary equipment head sculpture wood wooden

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