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A large Egyptian Diorite Wedjet Amulet set as a pendant, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Medium - Bone Provenance: ex Axel Guttmann Collection

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Provenance: ex Axel Guttmann Collection

one would think ankle greaves would be more popular among warriors

featuring a black-on-creme resist technique with added red coloration

simplified features are surrounded by hair arranged beneath a Phrygian cap

A large Egyptian Diorite Wedjet Amulet set as a pendant, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Medium - Bone Provenance: ex Axel Guttmann CollectionOf fine black and white speckled diorite, the profile detail depicted only, as usual for the type, drilled longitudinally for suspension. This type of larger stone wedjet eye is often used as a funerary amulet. The wedjet eye was supposedly the eye that Seth tore from Horus during a battle over who would lead the gods. Thoth healed the injured eye, returning it to Horus as the "sound one." Wedjet eye amulets were used from the Old Kingdom through the

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