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Wedjat eye amulet

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Description

Amulet, Wedjat eye. Third Intermediate Period or later, 1076–664 B.C. Faience. H. 1.9 cm (3/4 in.); W. 2.8 cm ( 1 1/8 in.); D. 0.5 cm (3/16 in.). From: Egypt. Credit: Gift of Helen Miller Gould, 1910.

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.

A small turquoise-blue faience amulet shaped like a stylized Wedjat/Eye, with a dark inlaid pupil and surrounding markings.

The object is a compact, flat, face-like amulet with an arched outer contour and a winged/teardrop outline consistent with a stylized “Eye of Horus” (Wedjat). The central black/dark inlay forms the pupil/central eye detail, while lighter incised/painted lines around the eye suggest the typical Wedjat segmentation. On the left side of the winged eye, faint curving marks are visible that resemble hieroglyphic-like incisions, though they are not clear enough to assign specific signs confidently. No cartouches, royal names, or other legible inscriptions are clearly present. The surface is glossy and turquoise, consistent with faience manufacture. No deities besides the implied Wedjat icon are explicitly identifiable, and there is no Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text visible.

decorative Third Intermediate Period or later (catalogue ground truth) good
Deities unknown (Wedjat/Eye of Horus motif implied)
Materials faienceturquoise-blue glazedark inlay (glass/stone)
Signs unidentified incised/painted curved mark

Connections

Materials FaienceTurquoise-Blue Glaze

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116273658 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 10.130.1870 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 566845 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • 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.