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Ptolemaic figure of Alexander the Great

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An image of Figure/Statuette. Ptolemais. Alexander the Great. Find Spot: Mansha, el- (Ptolemais Hermiou), Egypt. Marble, height 0.59 m, circa 100 B.C. Ptolemaic. Hellenistic Period.

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Figure/Statuette. Ptolemais. Alexander the Great. Find Spot: Mansha, el- (Ptolemais Hermiou), Egypt. Marble, height 0.59 m, circa 100 B.C. Ptolemaic. Hellenistic Period.

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  • Accession Number: GR.69.1970
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 596 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 326.29kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2014:01:28 10:56:15

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1st Century Alexander III of Macedon Alexander the Great Ancient Egypt Ancient Greece antiquity BC carved Egyptian Eskandar figure Hellenistic Period kings leaders male marble portraits Ptolemaic Dynasty rulers sculpture standing statuette young youth

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