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Egyptian jar, with wavy line decoration around shoulder

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An image of Vessel. Jar, with wavy line decoration around shoulder. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: El Kab or Naqada, Egypt. Height 0.23 m. Predynastic Period.

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Vessel. Jar, with wavy line decoration around shoulder. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: El Kab or Naqada, Egypt. Height 0.23 m. Predynastic Period.

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  • Accession Number: E.P.52
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/18.0
  • Focal length: 135
  • Camera: Canon EOS 6D
  • Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 550 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 319.43kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 250
  • Fnumber: 18/1
  • Captured: 2018:07:18 16:25:50

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Ancient Egypt antiquity clay Egyptian Fitz_ANT jar linear Naqada pottery Predynastic Period slender vessel wavy lines

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