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Face from an Egyptian coffin, with inlaid eyes and beard

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An image of Funerary equipment/coffin. Face from coffin, with inlaid eyes and attached beard. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Wood, depth 9.5 cm, length 25.25 cm, width 13.9 cm, 1186-1069. Twentieth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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Funerary equipment/coffin. Face from coffin, with inlaid eyes and attached beard. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Wood, depth 9.5 cm, length 25.25 cm, width 13.9 cm, 1186-1069. Twentieth Dynasty. New Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.GA.500.1947
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/39.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • 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: 80.31kB
  • Exposure time: 1/90
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 39/1

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11th Century 12th Century Ancient Egypt antiquity BC bearded beards coffin Egyptian faces Fitz_ANT funerary equipment inlaid inlay New Kingdom wood wooden

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rgb(161,117,71), rgb(180,179,179), rgb(232,230,228), rgb(203,155,106), rgb(118,79,44), rgb(61,43,25), rgb(220,220,219), rgb(167,129,94), rgb(212,211,212), rgb(205,202,199), rgb(128,117,104)

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