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April 2004  

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Who Gets the Credit?

Title: Mummy Mask of Satdjehuty
Provenance unknown
New Kingdom, Early Eighteenth Dynasty (ca. 1500 B.C.)
Medium: Cartonnage, painted and gilded,
Dimensions: Height 13 in.
EA 29770, Acquired in 1880,
Purchased at Morten & Sons from the sale of the collection of Samuel Hull
© Trustees of The British Museum, Courtesy AFA
Image © 2004 IATWM, Photographer: Y. Fournier
Credit: The Royal Ontario Museum, Eternal Egypt Exhibition

Is eleven  lines for the credit overkill? Obviously not in the opinion of IATWM. Often times in the media the photographer gets a credit if she or he is lucky and that is completely the publisher's editorial content decision.

We prefer to provide as much information as possible. We start with the title and artist and move on to the materials used in the production and the dimensions. The photography while good cannot give justice to the imposing size of some of these works. The Lion of Amenhotep III is massive in size and weight and hardly covered in our 350 pixel width image.

Our goal is to provide as much information about the digital images that we select for inclusion within our pages. History, size and artist are among the pieces of data we wish to convey along with our articles.