EGYPTIAN CARNELIAN EYE OF HORUS AMULET

Late Period, Ca. 664 - 332 BC An Egyptian carnelian Eye of Horus amulet. The Egyptian god Horus was usually depicted in human form but with the head of a falcon. His eye was taken to represent the sun, whose setting and rising symbolized loss and recovery a fitting sign for an amulet. For similar see: MET Museum Accession Number: 89.2.416.
Size: 11mm x 18mm; Weight: 2.6g
Provenance: Property of a London gallery; previously in a collection of a North London gentleman; formerly in a collection of Mrs B. Ellison, a deceased former member of the Egyptian Exploration Fund, bought from the 1940s, Cairo and London.

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Estimate: GBP 150 - 300