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Egyptian bronze figure of a woman carrying Horus

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An image of Figurine/Statue. Woman, standing, carrying figure of Horus child. Production Place: Egypt. Copper alloy (bronze), cast, with wooden base, height 17 cm, circa 747- circa 656 B.C. Twenty-fifth Dynasty.

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Figurine/Statue. Woman, standing, carrying figure of Horus child. Production Place: Egypt. Copper alloy (bronze), cast, with wooden base, height 17 cm, circa 747- circa 656 B.C. Twenty-fifth Dynasty.

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  • Accession Number: E.8.1955
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 560 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
  • Filesize: 330.17kB
  • Exposure time: 8947848/536870912
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 536870912/16777216
  • Captured: 2011:08:15 11:35:05

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