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Egyptian scarab inscribed with name of Amun-Re

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An image of Scarab. inscribed, with name of Amun-Re. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Sedment, Egypt. Carved stone, either carnelian or glazed steatite, length 1.2 cm, 1479-1425 B.C. New Kingdom. Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Scarab. inscribed, with name of Amun-Re. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Sedment, Egypt. Carved stone, either carnelian or glazed steatite, length 1.2 cm, 1479-1425 B.C. New Kingdom. Eighteenth Dynasty.

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  • Accession Number: E.30.1921
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1365 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 159.07kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2010:04:26 21:10:33

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15th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd Ancient Egypt antiquity BC beetles carnelian carved cornelian Egyptian Fitz_ANT glazed green insects New Kingdom scarab scarab beetle Sedment skarabs soapstone steatite stone

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