Wadjet eye amulet


Hilton Price Number
HP1969
Object Type
Jewellery, Amulet
Material
Faience
Provenance
Egypt, Thebes/Luxor
Measurements
Height: 1¼ inches | Width: 1 inch
Number of Elements
1
Culture
Egyptian
Animals
Unknown | Cat

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Description

Symbolic Eye, [hieroglyph] , with a cat seated upon a crown of uræi ; upon the drop are an uræus, a rosette and an animal, and upon the reverse is the left eye. Pierced. 1¼ in. X 1 in. Greenish-black faïence. Thebes.

Bibliography

Price, Frederick George Hilton (1897) A catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F. G. Hilton Price. London: Quaritch. Anonymous (1911). Catalogue of the important and extensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of the late F. G. Hilton-Price, Esq. [...] : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge [...] on Wednesday, 12th July, 1911, and two following days, and on Monday, the 17th of July, and four following days. London: Davy.