Mummified Bird Remains, from Saqqara, Egypt

An image of Bird Mummy. Falcon mummy, with painted plaster mask (?). Length 0.285 m, width 0.07 m. Find Spot: Hawk Gallery 6, Saqqara, Egypt. Ptolemaic Period.

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Bird Mummy. Falcon mummy, with painted plaster mask (?). Length 0.285 m, width 0.07 m. Find Spot: Hawk Gallery 6, Saqqara, Egypt. Ptolemaic Period.

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Accession Number: E.80.1975
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 599 pixels
Image width: 1023 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 171.38kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:01:29 14:20:44

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Ancient Egypt animal mummy antiquity birds Egyptian Fitz_ANT grave goods mummified animal mummy organic remains Ptolemaic Dynasty ritual equipment ritual object

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