Mummified Falcon, from Saqqara, Egypt

An image of Mummified Falcon. Find Spot: Falcon Galleries, Saqqara, Egypt. Length 44.5 cm. 332-30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period.

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Mummified Falcon. Find Spot: Falcon Galleries, Saqqara, Egypt. Length 44.5 cm. 332-30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period.

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Accession Number: E.7.1938
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 456 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 68.29kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2013:01:23 13:49:00

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Ancient Egypt animal mummy antiquity BC birds Egyptian falcon Fitz_ANT grave goods mummified animal mummy organic remains Ptolemaic Dynasty ritual equipment ritual object

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