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Wooden face, carved from sidr, of a New Kingdom coffin containing recesses for inlaid eyes and eyebrows. The inlays are lost, but impressions of them survive in the remains of the adhesive, which is made of Egyptian blue and gum.
Height: 0.151 m
Thickness: 0.077 m
Width: 0.15 m
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1947) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major
New Kingdom
-1550
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-1070
Accession number: E.GA.501.1947
Primary reference Number: 61692
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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