Hand from an Egyptian coffin with winged scarab

An image of Funerary equipment/cartonnage. Left hand, from a yellow coffin with winged scarab decoration. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Luxor, Egypt. Wood, height 9.5 cm, width 15.9 cm, thickness 4.1 cm, circa 1070- circa 945 B.C. Third Intermediate period.

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Funerary equipment/cartonnage. Left hand, from a yellow coffin with winged scarab decoration. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Luxor, Egypt. Wood, height 9.5 cm, width 15.9 cm, thickness 4.1 cm, circa 1070- circa 945 B.C. Third Intermediate period.

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Accession Number: E.GA.2861.1943
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 655 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 176.32kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2014:11:27 11:27:48

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10th Century 11th Century Ancient Egypt antiquity BC beetles cartonnage Egyptian fist Fitz_ANT funerary equipment hands insects mummy mummy coffin painted scarab Third Intermediate Period wood wooden yellow

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