Egyptian funerary cone, inscribed for Merimose

An image of Funerary equipment. Funerary cone, inscribed for the King's son of Kush Merimose (owner of TT383). Find Spot: TT 383, Thebes Egypt. Production Place: Egypt. Coarse red ware with remains of red haematite wash. Fired clay, height 17 cm, diameter 7.25 cm. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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Funerary equipment. Funerary cone, inscribed for the King's son of Kush Merimose (owner of TT383). Find Spot: TT 383, Thebes Egypt. Production Place: Egypt. Coarse red ware with remains of red haematite wash. Fired clay, height 17 cm, diameter 7.25 cm. Eighteenth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.P.321
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 86.71kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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Ancient Egypt antiquity clay cone conical Egyptian Fitz_ANT fragment funerary cone funerary equipment hieroglyphics hieroglyphs inscribed inscriptions Merimose New Kingdom royal script texts Thebes writing

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