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Cypriot limestone figure of a scribe

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An image of Figure/statuette. Scribe. Production Place: Cyprus. Find Spot: Salamis, Cyprus; Toumpa. Limestone, depth 0.092 m, height 0.077 m, width 0.04, m, 600-501 B.C. Archaic Period.

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Figure/statuette. Scribe. Production Place: Cyprus. Find Spot: Salamis, Cyprus; Toumpa. Limestone, depth 0.092 m, height 0.077 m, width 0.04, m, 600-501 B.C. Archaic Period.

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  • Accession Number: GR.24.1890
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/27.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 977 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 549.27kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 27/1

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6th Century Ancient Greece antiquity Archaic Period BC Cypriot figure Fitz_ANT limestone male Salamis scribe sculpture seated sitting statuette

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