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Egyptian faience hedgehog, from Beni Hasan

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An image of Figure/figurine/tomb figure. Faience Hedgehog. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb 655 Beni Hasan, Egypt. Faience, moulded, length, 6.25 cm, width, 3.75 cm, 1976-1793 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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Figure/figurine/tomb figure. Faience Hedgehog. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb 655 Beni Hasan, Egypt. Faience, moulded, length, 6.25 cm, width, 3.75 cm, 1976-1793 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty. Middle Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.345.1954
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 96.49kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2013:10:21 14:48:58

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Ancient Egypt animal animal figure animals antiquity blue faience figure figurine Fitz_ANT hedgehog Middle Kingdom moulded turquoise

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