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Egyptian faience jerboa, from Heliopolis

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An image of Figure/figurine/tomb figure. Faience Jerboa. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: D12 tomb(?) Heliopolis, Egypt. Faience, moulded, length, 4.1 cm, width, 2.7 cm, 1976-1793 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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Figure/figurine/tomb figure. Faience Jerboa. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: D12 tomb(?) Heliopolis, Egypt. Faience, moulded, length, 4.1 cm, width, 2.7 cm, 1976-1793 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.279.1939
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 781 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 68.46kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2013:10:21 15:37:28

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Ancient Egypt animal animal figure animals antiquity Egyptian faience figure figurine Fitz_ANT jerboa Middle Kingdom moulded rodent

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