Egyptian cartonnage fragment of a gilded mask

An image of Funerary Equipment. Cartonnage fragment, mask, face gilded. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Height 16.00 cm, width 15 cm, thickness 3.1 cm, 380 B.C.to 30 AD (dating not confident). Twenty-sixth Dynasty. Late Period.

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Funerary Equipment. Cartonnage fragment, mask, face gilded. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Height 16.00 cm, width 15 cm, thickness 3.1 cm, 380 B.C.to 30 AD (dating not confident). Twenty-sixth Dynasty. Late Period.

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Accession Number: E.GA.290.1949
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: 933 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 900.12kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2014:11:27 11:35:52

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AD Ancient Egypt antiquity BC cartonnage Egyptian faces Fitz_ANT funerary equipment gilded gilt gold hair headdress Late Period mask

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