Wooden head from an Egyptian coffin

An image of Funerary equipment. Coffin. Head from coffin. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Egypt; 840 (?). Wood, length 36 cm, 1550-1295 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Funerary equipment. Coffin. Head from coffin. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Egypt; 840 (?). Wood, length 36 cm, 1550-1295 B.C. Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Accession Number: E.49.1926
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 102.07kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC coffin Egyptian faces Fitz_ANT fragment funerary equipment head sculpture wood wooden

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