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Wooden beard from a New Kingdom coffin

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An image of Funerary equipment. Coffin fragment. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Karnak, Egypt. Wooden beard from a New Kingdom coffin, inlaid with blue glass and detailed with gold leaf. Length 16.5 cm,1550-1070 B.C. New Kingdom.

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Funerary equipment. Coffin fragment. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Karnak, Egypt. Wooden beard from a New Kingdom coffin, inlaid with blue glass and detailed with gold leaf. Length 16.5 cm,1550-1070 B.C. New Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.105.1932
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/16.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 437 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 342.00kB
  • Exposure time: 1/15
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 16/1
  • Captured: 2015:06:17 11:56:38

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Ancient Egypt antiquity BC bearded beards coffin coffin element Egyptian Fitz_ANT fragment funerary equipment gold leaf inlaid inlay New Kingdom wood wooden

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