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Sycamore pegs for construction of the coffin of Nakhtefmut

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An image of Funerary equipment/coffin element. Sycamore pegs (2), tapering, intended for use in construction of the outer coffin of Nakhtefmut. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. Wood, height, (a), 7.5 cm, height, (b), 5.5 cm, width, (a), 0.7 cm, width, (b), 0.6 cm, circa 923 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty. Third Intermediate period.

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Funerary equipment/coffin element. Sycamore pegs (2), tapering, intended for use in construction of the outer coffin of Nakhtefmut. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. Wood, height, (a), 7.5 cm, height, (b), 5.5 cm, width, (a), 0.7 cm, width, (b), 0.6 cm, circa 923 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty. Third Intermediate period.

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  • Accession Number: E.93a-b.1896
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 55.87kB
  • Exposure time: 1/20
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2015:02:26 16:04:44

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10th Century Ancient Egypt antiquity BC coffin coffin element Egyptian Fitz_ANT funerary equipment pegs sycamore Third Intermediate Period wood wooden

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