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Egyptian beads, embedded in mud

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An image of Jewellery. Beads, embedded in mud. Find Spot: Thebes (Egypt), Deir el-Bahri. Height 0.07 m. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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Jewellery. Beads, embedded in mud. Find Spot: Thebes (Egypt), Deir el-Bahri. Height 0.07 m. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.49.1907
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Photographer name: Mark Box
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 139.75kB
  • Exposure time: 1/18
  • ISO Speed: 50
  • Captured: 2012:02:22 13:51:14

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Ancient Egypt antiquity bead beaded beads Egyptian Fitz_ANT jewellery mud muddy New Kingdom Thebes

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