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Apis bull, painted on board; foot board from a cartonnage coffin
Height: 21.2 cm
Thickness: 1.8 cm
Width: 31.7 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, Major
25th dynasty-26th dynasty
-745
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-655
Accession number: E.GA.2911.1943
Primary reference Number: 57339
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Coffin element" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/57339 Accessed: 2023-05-28 00:55:58
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/57339
|title=Coffin element
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-05-28 00:55:58|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-57339
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<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant47/E_GA_2911_1943_1_201411_jas244_dc2.jpg" alt="Coffin element" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Coffin element</figcaption> </figure> </div>
Accession Number: E.2.1853
Accession Number: E.93a-b.1896
Accession Number: E.4.1908
Accession Number: E.3.1908
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