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Wooden coffin fragment
A head-shaped decoration from a coffin. The hairstyle indicates that the subject was female and that this object dates to the late Ptolemaic to early Roman periods.
Height: 19.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major
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Accession number: E.GA.3016.1943
Primary reference Number: 57446
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Wooden coffin fragment" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/57446 Accessed: 2024-11-04 18:27:13
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