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Glazed eye amulet
Faience wedjat eye amulet
Faience wedjat eye amulet. This object represents the eye of Horus and was worn to protect the owner, here in death. Excavated at the Sanam cemetery and from tomb 1459 (see also E.120-124.1921, which are from the same tomb).
Height: 0.025 m
Length: 0.035 m
Method of acquisition: Given (1921) by Oxford Expedition to Nubia (1912-13)
Meroitic
Production date:
circa
700 BC
Accession number: E.118.1921
Primary reference Number: 52137
Oldadmincategory: A
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
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