Egyptian face from a coffin

An image of Funerary equipment. Face from coffin, polychrome and varnished. Chin and nose heavily restored during the Twentieth Century. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Thebes. Width 21.7 cm, height 24.6 cm, thickness 5.4 cm, 1070-735 B.C. (dating not confident). Twenty-first Dynasty. Third Intermediate period.

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Funerary equipment. Face from coffin, polychrome and varnished. Chin and nose heavily restored during the Twentieth Century. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Thebes. Width 21.7 cm, height 24.6 cm, thickness 5.4 cm, 1070-735 B.C. (dating not confident). Twenty-first Dynasty. Third Intermediate period.

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Accession Number: E.GA.507.1947
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/12.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 867 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 175.99kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 12/1
Captured: 2015:06:11 14:47:09

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afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC coffin cosmetics Egyptian eyeliner eyes faces Fitz_ANT funerary equipment hair headdress make-up painted polychrome Third Intermediate Period varnished wood wooden

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