Wooden beard from a New Kingdom coffin

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Funerary equipment. Coffin fragment. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Karnak, Egypt. Wooden beard from a New Kingdom coffin, inlaid with blue glass and detailed with gold leaf. Length 16.5 cm,1550-1070 B.C. New Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.105.1932
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 437 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 342.00kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2015:06:17 11:56:38

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Ancient Egypt antiquity BC bearded beards coffin coffin element Egyptian Fitz_ANT fragment funerary equipment gold leaf inlaid inlay New Kingdom wood wooden

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