Home › Browse › BM-EgSu › Object 17144
British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan · jewelry

amulet (artificial eye)

Source of record: British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

Semicircular artificial eye in stone with traces of black pigments to mark the iris and to outline the edge of the piece. The piece is flat and roughly carved. Black resinous deposit with textured dark brown stains covering on the back. The eye would have originally been placed on the orbit of a mummified individual.

Cross-references (2)

  • BM-Object Y_EA90813 tier-2
  • BM-Registration OC.90813 tier-2
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by British Museum — Department of Egypt and Sudan.
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.