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Egyptian ebony head, with beard, from a coffin

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An image of Funerary equipment/coffin. Head with beard, from coffin. Production Place: Egypt. Ebony, height 0.381 m, width 0.185 m, thickness 0.082 m.

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Funerary equipment/coffin. Head with beard, from coffin. Production Place: Egypt. Ebony, height 0.381 m, width 0.185 m, thickness 0.082 m.

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  • Accession Number: E.GA.111.1949
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/16.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: NIKON D800
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 590 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 91.51kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 16/1
  • Captured: 2015:07:15 15:03:57

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Ancient Egypt antiquity BC bearded beards carved coffin ebony Egyptian faces Fitz_ANT funerary equipment heads male wood wooden

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