Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · jewelry

Wadjet-eye Amulet

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1300E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1300E
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period (probably)
Date: 664–332 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['Faience']
Height: 1.8 cm
Width: 0.4 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Description

Caption: Wadjet-eye Amulet, 664–332 B.C.E.. Faience, 11/16 x 3/16 x 13/16 in. (1.8 x 0.4 x 2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1300E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Small Egyptian faience amulet shaped like an eye, with green glazed surface and incised outlines for the eyelid and brows.

The image shows a miniature, greenish faience object photographed against a gray background. The amulet appears as a stylized eye form (Wadjet-like), with a dark outline/incised detailing for the upper lid and brow and a lateral projection on one side. A small loop or attachment element is visible at the top edge, suggesting it could be worn as a pendant. No clear hieroglyphic inscription is legible on the amulet itself; only a separate beige museum label with handwritten black text is visible in the photo. The label reads approximately “37, 1300E” (handwriting partially unclear). No cartouches or royal names are visible.

decorative Late Period (probably), as catalogued; specific dating cannot be confirmed from image alone good

Deities Wadjet (eye amulet association; motif consistent but not explicitly inscribed)

Materials Faience (glazed ceramic, green)

Signs Stylized eye/eye-of-Horus or Wadjet-eye amulet motif

Connections

Deities Wadjet

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1300E tier-2
BKM-Object 117862 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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.