Egyptian gilded face from a coffin

An image of Funerary Equipment/Coffin. Face from coffin, with eyes and eyebrows inlaid, gilded. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Wood (gilded), carved, depth 7.5 cm, length 16.6 cm, width 11.9 cm, 1186-1069 B.C. Twentieth Dynasty, New Kingdom.

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Funerary Equipment/Coffin. Face from coffin, with eyes and eyebrows inlaid, gilded. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Wood (gilded), carved, depth 7.5 cm, length 16.6 cm, width 11.9 cm, 1186-1069 B.C. Twentieth Dynasty, New Kingdom.

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Accession Number: E.GA.505.1947
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 113.05kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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