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Coffin, of the chief priest of Karnak

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An image of Funerary equipment. Coffin, of the chief priest of Karnak, Nekht-ef-Mut. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. Painted wood, depth 0.33 m, height 1.775 m, width 0.44 m, 924 to 889 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty. Third Intermediate Period.

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Funerary equipment. Coffin, of the chief priest of Karnak, Nekht-ef-Mut. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. Painted wood, depth 0.33 m, height 1.775 m, width 0.44 m, 924 to 889 B.C. Twenty-second Dynasty. Third Intermediate Period.

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  • Accession Number: E.64.1896
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 443 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 414.11kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1

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10th Century 9th Century Ancient Egypt antiquity BC cartonnage coffin Egyptian Fitz_ANT funerary funerary equipment hieroglyphics hieroglyphs mummy coffin painted priest Ramesseum Third Intermediate Period wood wooden

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