IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 52849 accession number: E.117.1932 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 25 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: eye of cow or bull, rim. The object came to Edward Towry-Whyte from the Harris Collection in 1889, and was object number 648 in the Towry-Whyte Bequest to the Fitzwilliam Museum. object type: Glass eye rim (blue), quite likely from an "Apis mummy", a deity regarded as the herald of Ptah, ideologically linked to strength in rulership, and later affiliated with Osiris (and served as a protector of the dead). The Apis bull can be seen escorting the deceased back to the tomb on the footboards of coffins from the mid-Third Intermediate Period, particularly in the 25th and 26th Dynasties. The shape of the eye (and colour) closely matches those seen on a head of an "Apis mummy", from the Rosicrucian Museum, labelled RC-367. https://egyptianmuseum.catalogaccess.com/objects/342 title: inlay LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities creditline: bequeathed by Edward Towry Whyte from the Harris Collection, 1932 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/52849 CATEGORIES ------ category: ornamental element DATING ------ DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Made in Ancient Egypt CITATIONS -------- Glass at the Fitzwilliam Museum ---