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Shabti box, for a priest named Hornefer and his wife

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An image of Funerary equipment. Shabti box, for a Priest named Hornefer and his wife, a chantress of Amun, named Taqa. Has two separate compartments for the couple's shabtis. Production Place: Egypt. Wood, depth 0.16 m, height 0.345 m, width 0.26 m, circa 1290- circa 1185 B.C. New Kingdom.

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Funerary equipment. Shabti box, for a Priest named Hornefer and his wife, a chantress of Amun, named Taqa. Has two separate compartments for the couple's shabtis. Production Place: Egypt. Wood, depth 0.16 m, height 0.345 m, width 0.26 m, circa 1290- circa 1185 B.C. New Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.205.1932
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 112.94kB
  • Exposure time: 1/250
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 32/1

Key words

12th Century 13th Century afterlife Amon-Re Amun-Ra Amun-Re Ancient Egypt antiquity BC belief box container Egyptian figures Fitz_ANT funerary equipment grave goods hieroglyphics hieroglyphs New Kingdom painted priest religion religious shabti ushabti wife wood wooden

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rgb(234,233,233), rgb(132,123,112), rgb(178,178,178), rgb(119,85,56), rgb(42,34,26), rgb(93,65,45), rgb(214,190,162), rgb(180,156,129), rgb(87,87,85), rgb(163,164,145), rgb(196,204,196)

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