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Painted wooden coffin, from Beni Hasan

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An image of Funerary Equipment. Coffin, with lid. Inscribed for a woman with the title 'Lady of the House' called Nakht. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Beni Hasan; tomb 23. Wood, painted, height 0.545, m, length 1.855, m, width 0.438, m, 1985-1773 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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Funerary Equipment. Coffin, with lid. Inscribed for a woman with the title 'Lady of the House' called Nakht. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Beni Hasan; tomb 23. Wood, painted, height 0.545, m, length 1.855, m, width 0.438, m, 1985-1773 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.68.1903
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/20.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 509 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 131.59kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 20/1
  • Captured: 2006:05:22 20:32:25

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afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC belief beni hasan coffin Egyptian Fitz_ANT funerary equipment geometrical inscribed inscriptions Middle Kingdom painted wood wooden

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