Head of an Egyptian king, wearing Nemes Headdress

An image of Head of a King, wearing Nemes Headdress, Senwosret I (?). An archaizing 'portrait' of a ruler. Basalt. Dimensions: depth 8 cm, length 8.4 cm, width 7.3 cm. Egyptian. Twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth Dynasty. Circa 747 B.C. to 525 B.C.

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Head of a King, wearing Nemes Headdress, Senwosret I (?). An archaizing 'portrait' of a ruler. Basalt. Dimensions: depth 8 cm, length 8.4 cm, width 7.3 cm. Egyptian. Twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth Dynasty. Circa 747 B.C. to 525 B.C.

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Accession Number: E.2.1974
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 852 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 688.69kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2011:04:06 14:43:58

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