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Egyptian ostracon with a donkey and foal

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An image of Written Document. Ostracon, figured. Donkey and foal. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Limestone, length 0.13 m, width 0.13 m. New Kingdom.

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Written Document. Ostracon, figured. Donkey and foal. Production Place/Find Spot: Egypt. Limestone, length 0.13 m, width 0.13 m. New Kingdom.

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  • Accession Number: E.GA.4750.1943
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: GFX 50S
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 226.63kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2017:11:29 02:32:09

Key words

Ancient Egypt animal animals antiquity document donkeys Egyptian figured ostracon Fitz_ANT foal limestone mules New Kingdom ostraca ostracon ostrakon written document

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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Egyptian ostracon with a donkey and foal" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-59860252 Accessed: 2024-12-22 22:06:57

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