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Egyptian cartonnage fragment, Isis with outstretched wings

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An image of Funerary Equipment. Cartonnage fragment, Isis with outstretched wings, inscribed. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Width 14.4 cm, height 37.3 cm, thickness 0.5 cm, circa 945 B.C.

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Funerary Equipment. Cartonnage fragment, Isis with outstretched wings, inscribed. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Width 14.4 cm, height 37.3 cm, thickness 0.5 cm, circa 945 B.C.

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  • Accession Number: E.GA.2887.1943
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 543 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 639.83kB
  • Exposure time: 1/15
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2015:06:11 13:59:14

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10th Century Ancient Egypt antiquity BC belief cartonnage deity Egyptian female Fitz_ANT fragment funerary equipment goddess gods guardian hieroglyphics hieroglyphs inscribed inscriptions Isiac Isis painted Polytheism Polytheistic protector protectress religion religious Tyet winged wings women

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rgb(234,234,233), rgb(71,70,54), rgb(111,100,76), rgb(196,179,150), rgb(205,163,117), rgb(180,124,84), rgb(189,161,118), rgb(206,197,175), rgb(101,58,40), rgb(137,70,35), rgb(188,188,188)

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