Wedjat (eye of Horus) healing amulet
Date1550-30 BCE
PeriodLate Bronze Age (Egyptian New Kingdom) to early Roman (Egyptian Late Period
CultureEgyptian
MediumGlass (molded)
ClassificationGlass
ProvenanceJulien Gréau collection; J. Pierpont Morgan gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1917; (sale, The Anderson Galleries, New York), March 30–31 or April 21, 1928; purchased by John Ringling; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936-present.
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN28.1499
On View
Not on viewHeight: 7/16 in. (1.18 cm)
Width: 5/8 in. (1.62 cm)
Thickness: 3/16 in. (0.4 cm)
Piercing
Diameter (edge of eyeball): 1/16 in. (0.22 – 0.23 cm)
Diameter (edge of eyebrow): 1/8 in. (0.26 – 0.27 cm)
Medium Details
Color
Glass: not in Munsell
Inclusions
n/a
1st–4th century CE
1st-4th century CE
mid-3rd–early 4th century CE
4th-5th Century
