Egyptian scarab inscribed with figure of bound captive

An image of Scarab. inscribed, with figure of bound captive. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Sedment, Egypt. Carved stone, either carnelian or glazed steatite, length 1.4 cm, 1479-1425 B.C. New Kingdom. Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Scarab. inscribed, with figure of bound captive. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Sedment, Egypt. Carved stone, either carnelian or glazed steatite, length 1.4 cm, 1479-1425 B.C. New Kingdom. Eighteenth Dynasty.

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Accession Number: E.28.1921
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1365 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 169.41kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2010:04:26 21:02:06

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