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Egyptian wooden shabti box

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An image of Funerary Equipment. Wooden shabti box, undecorated, with ordinary shabtis and overseer shabtis (E.92a-b.1896) buried with Nakhtefmut. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum Thebes, Egypt. Wood, depth, 14.7 cm, height, 25 cm, width, 23.5 cm, 945-715 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty; Third Intermediate period; reign of Osorkon I.

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Funerary Equipment. Wooden shabti box, undecorated, with ordinary shabtis and overseer shabtis (E.92a-b.1896) buried with Nakhtefmut. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum Thebes, Egypt. Wood, depth, 14.7 cm, height, 25 cm, width, 23.5 cm, 945-715 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty; Third Intermediate period; reign of Osorkon I.

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  • Accession Number: E.91.1896
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/39.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 122.94kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 39/1

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