Lotus flower from an Egyptian coffin

An image of Funerary equipment. Coffin fragment. Lotus flower from a coffin, orginally attached to the elbow of an anthropoid coffin. Production Place: Egypt. Wood, plastered surface, thickness 1.5 cm, height 10.9 cm, width 7.9 cm, 1070-945 B.C. Third Intermediate period.

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Funerary equipment. Coffin fragment. Lotus flower from a coffin, orginally attached to the elbow of an anthropoid coffin. Production Place: Egypt. Wood, plastered surface, thickness 1.5 cm, height 10.9 cm, width 7.9 cm, 1070-945 B.C. Third Intermediate period.

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Accession Number: E.GA.5851.1943
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 733.03kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2014:11:27 10:09:28

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10th Century 11th Century Ancient Egypt anthropoid antiquity BC carved coffin Egyptian Fitz_ANT floral flowers fragment funerary equipment lotus lotus bud lotus flower plaster Third Intermediate Period wood wooden

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