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Coffin fragment of Wepwawetemhat, a master physician

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An image of Funerary Equipment. Coffin fragment of Wepwawetemhat, a master physician. This fragment comes from the bottom edge of the long side of the coffin box. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Asyut(?), Egypt. Wood, painted, width 75.3 cm, height 8.9 cm, thickness 3.4 cm, circa 1975-circa 1790 B.C. Middle Kingdom.

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Funerary Equipment. Coffin fragment of Wepwawetemhat, a master physician. This fragment comes from the bottom edge of the long side of the coffin box. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Asyut(?), Egypt. Wood, painted, width 75.3 cm, height 8.9 cm, thickness 3.4 cm, circa 1975-circa 1790 B.C. Middle Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.W.66a
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/18.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 405 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 58.08kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 18/1
  • Captured: 2015:07:14 09:55:44

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Ancient Egypt animal animals antelopes antiquity BC cattle coffin cows Egyptian Fitz_ANT fragment funerary equipment hieroglyphics hieroglyphs Middle Kingdom painted wood wooden

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