Incomplete Eye of Horus or Wedjat Eye

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Incomplete Eye of Horus or Wedjat Eye

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This object is an incomplete Eye of Horus or Wedjat eye amulet most likely made from faience It may have been used as an amulet or pendant. The Wedjat Eye, is one of the most recognisable of the protective amulets. The Wedjat means ‘the sound one’ refers to the eye of Horus representing the eye that was plucked out by Seth and headed by Thoth. This is dated

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