Superb Faience Wedjat Eye Necklace
Third Intermediate Period, 1070-712 BC
A superb, fully wearable necklace composed of thirteen very fine green-glazed faience wedjat amuletic beads, the circumference of each openwork bead composed of the left (moon) and right (sun) eye of Horus with plait royal beard between; thirty-six blue-glazed faience discoid beads, forty-eight spherical form hollow gold spacers and four larger hollow biconical gold beads.
Both the Wedjat amuletic beads and discoi ...click for details
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