Egyptian female mummified head with wig

An image of Organic remains. Human mummy. Female head, mummified, with gilded skin, with wig (hair length 0.320 m). Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Depth 0.21 m, height 0.22 m, width 0.19 m.

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Organic remains. Human mummy. Female head, mummified, with gilded skin, with wig (hair length 0.320 m). Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Depth 0.21 m, height 0.22 m, width 0.19 m.

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Accession Number: E.GA.1463.1947
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Mark Box
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 142.55kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 45/1
Captured: 2012:04:17 06:48:04

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Ancient Egypt antiquity Egyptian female Fitz_ANT gilded heads human remains mummification mummified mummy organic remains wigs

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