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

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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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