Skip to main content

Egyptian face from a coffin

Image attached to E.GA.507.1947

An image of Funerary equipment. Face from coffin, polychrome and varnished. Chin and nose heavily restored during the Twentieth Century. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Thebes. Width 21.7 cm, height 24.6 cm, thickness 5.4 cm, 1070-735 B.C. (dating not confident). Twenty-first Dynasty. Third Intermediate period.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

About this image

Funerary equipment. Face from coffin, polychrome and varnished. Chin and nose heavily restored during the Twentieth Century. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Thebes. Width 21.7 cm, height 24.6 cm, thickness 5.4 cm, 1070-735 B.C. (dating not confident). Twenty-first Dynasty. Third Intermediate period.

Image data

  • Accession Number: E.GA.507.1947
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/12.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 867 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 175.99kB
  • Exposure time: 1/15
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 12/1
  • Captured: 2015:06:11 14:47:09

Key words

afterlife Ancient Egypt antiquity BC coffin cosmetics Egyptian eyeliner eyes faces Fitz_ANT funerary equipment hair headdress make-up painted polychrome Third Intermediate Period varnished wood wooden

Colours in this image

rgb(160,98,36), rgb(68,61,47), rgb(242,242,242), rgb(150,147,138), rgb(197,164,137), rgb(213,185,159), rgb(46,138,166), rgb(195,192,189), rgb(235,180,105), rgb(223,200,187), rgb(124,116,124)

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Egyptian face from a coffin" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-2220355397 Accessed: 2024-12-02 14:07:28

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-2220355397 |title=Egyptian face from a coffin |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-02 14:07:28|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-201008

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant47/E_GA_507_1947_1_201506_jas244_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Coffin"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Egyptian face from a coffin</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>
    

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...