cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/E.63.2
| Accession_Number | E.63.2 | ||||
| Shape | Pendant | ||||
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| Material | Faience | ||||
| Fabric | Egyptian | ||||
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| Decoration | Sacred eye of the god Horus, originally blue. There is a hole drilled horizontally through the middle of the piece to allow threading. The details are carved into the piece, the top is a line of slightly diagonal lines, below this is a small flat line below this the detail of the actual eye which is common to all sacred eye amulets. | ||||
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| Condition | Intact and complete, inspite of the fact that the surface remains smooth much of the blue pigment is gone and the artefact is now mostly brown. There is very little loss of the carved details. | ||||
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| Provenance | Medum | ||||
| Period | 3rd Intermediate Period: 22 dynasty | ||||
| Date | 945-712 | ||||
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| Height | 2.5 at tallest | ||||
| Diameters | 3.2 at widest | ||||
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| Other_dims. | Depth: 0.9 at deepest | ||||
| Location | Myth and religion | ||||
| Edited_by | Leigh; Kinsey | ||||
| Date_edited | 25/9/02; 11.01.2006 |
