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Outer coffin lid, of Pa-Kepu, from Thebes

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An image of Funerary Equipment. Coffins, inner and outer, of Pa-Kepu, a water administrator (wAH-mw) at Thebes. Wood, length, outer coffin, 209 cm. Production Place: Egypt. Kushite-Late Period, Twenty-fifth Dynasty- Twenty-sixth Dynasty.

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Funerary Equipment. Coffins, inner and outer, of Pa-Kepu, a water administrator (wAH-mw) at Thebes. Wood, length, outer coffin, 209 cm. Production Place: Egypt. Kushite-Late Period, Twenty-fifth Dynasty- Twenty-sixth Dynasty.

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  • Accession Number: E.2.1869
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/7.1
  • Focal length: 35
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 478 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 113.44kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 71/10
  • Captured: 2006:04:26 17:56:59

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afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC belief coffin Egyptian Fitz_ANT funerary funerary equipment hair headdress hieroglyphics hieroglyphs Kushite Empire Kushite period mummy mummy coffin painted Third Intermediate Period wood wooden

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