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Egyptian cartonnage fragment, with winged goddess Nut

Image attached to E.GA.291.1949

An image of Funerary Equipment. Cartonnage fragment, with winged goddess Nut, holding two feathers. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Width 0.459 m, height 0.141 m, thickness 0.001 m, circa 332- circa 30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period.

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Funerary Equipment. Cartonnage fragment, with winged goddess Nut, holding two feathers. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Width 0.459 m, height 0.141 m, thickness 0.001 m, circa 332- circa 30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period.

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  • Accession Number: E.GA.291.1949
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 404 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 121.75kB
  • Exposure time: 1/15
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1

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Ancient Egypt antiquity arms arms outstretched arms raised arms uplifted BC cartonnage deity disc disk Egyptian feathers female Fitz_ANT fragment funerary equipment goddess gods hair hairstyle Neuth Newet Nuit Nut (goddess) Polytheism Polytheistic Ptolemaic Ptolemaic Dynasty sky sun disc winged wings woman wood wooden

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