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accession number: 1994
London: Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press
Fashioned from a narrow strip of gold wrapped around the perimeter of the stone and carefully folded over the edges of the bezel base
Condition: Overall surface encrustation with some scattered ancient minor losses that do not detract
wearable example of Byzantine jewelry
An Egyptian Carnelian Wedjat eye Pendant, New Kingdom, 18th - 19th Dynasty, ca. 1550 - 1290 BCE Royal accession number: 1994Without doubt, the best known of all protective amulets is the wedjat, literally 'the sound one', referring to the eye of the falcon headed Horus after it had been plucked out during one of his interminable battles with Seth and then healed by Thoth. This Horus was the celestial falcon and great creator god whose right eye was the sun and left eye the moon. It is generally supposed that the wedjat was the moon eye, which was 'injured' as it waned and
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