Scarab set into a pair of wings, found on Nakhtefmut's chest

An image of Scarab. Set into a pair of outstretched wings, found on Nakhtefmut's chest. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. Length 11.9 cm, width 2.4, cm, circa 923 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty. Third Intermediate period, reign of Osorkon I.

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Scarab. Set into a pair of outstretched wings, found on Nakhtefmut's chest. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. Length 11.9 cm, width 2.4, cm, circa 923 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty. Third Intermediate period, reign of Osorkon I.

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Accession Number: E.294.1896
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 430 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 68.66kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2015:02:26 13:48:36

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10th Century afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC beetles belief Egyptian Fitz_ANT funerary equipment insects metalwork outstretched religion scarab Third Intermediate Period winged wings

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