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LOT 0533
Egyptian Blue Stone Eye of Horus Amulet
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
5/8 in. (2.49 grams, 16.6 mm).
Carved wedjat amulet with transverse piercing at the brow. [No Reserve]
Provenance
with Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
Literature
Cf. Tinius, I., Altägypten in Braunschweig. Die Sammlungen des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums und des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, 2011, p.161, no. 305, for similar.
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