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Egyptian panel from coffin, with Nephthys

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An image of Funerary Equipment/Coffin. Wooden Panel from coffin, showing Nephthys, squatting on gold sign, arms upraised. Production Place: Egypt. Wood, height 0.328 m, width 0.184 m, thickness 0.037 m, circa 664-200 B.C. Notes: Nephthys was a protective goddess of the dead.

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Funerary Equipment/Coffin. Wooden Panel from coffin, showing Nephthys, squatting on gold sign, arms upraised. Production Place: Egypt. Wood, height 0.328 m, width 0.184 m, thickness 0.037 m, circa 664-200 B.C. Notes: Nephthys was a protective goddess of the dead.

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  • Accession Number: E.GA.4331.1943
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 586 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 152.46kB
  • Exposure time: 1/15
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2015:06:11 14:19:58

Key words

afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity arms arms raised arms uplifted BC belief coffin deity Egyptian female Fitz_ANT funerary funerary equipment goddess gods guardian hieroglyphics hieroglyphs Nebthet Nephthys panel protector protectress religion religious squat squatting uplifted woman wood wooden

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