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Wedjat Eye Amulet

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Description

Amulet, Wedjat eye. Late Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, late - 13 up to 1700, ca. 1850–1700 B.C. Carnelian. l. 1.5 cm (9/16 in). From: cemetery south of pyramid below House A1:2, Pit 884, Lisht North, Memphite Region, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920–21. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1922.

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.

The image shows multiple small, colored stone pieces including one prominent blue-green oval/cylinder-like object that could be an amuletic “eye” form, along with several blue and one red fragmentary items on a white background.

Photographed against a plain white background are several small artifacts arranged loosely. Most items appear as blue (lapis-like or dyed/painted stone) fragments, including triangular/arched shapes at the upper row and a small round/seed-like blue piece at left-middle. A larger central object is blue-green and smooth, shaped like an oval/rounded cylinder, with a darker outline and mottled surface; its overall form is consistent with an amuletic element but the internal “eye” details (e.g., wedjat pupil/segments) are not clearly resolved in this view. On the left side there is a larger dark-blue fragment with red and blue markings/inscriptions, but the characters are not legible enough to identify specific signs. A red artifact at lower right is fragmentary (appears like a small flat piece with a hole/circular feature) and does not clearly match a wedjat eye. No distinct cartouches or clear hieroglyphic/Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are legible from the main view.

unclear Late Middle Kingdom (per catalogue; not independently confirmable from image alone) fragmentary
Materials stoneblue-green vitreous/stone (possibly glass or mineral)dark blue stone/painted stonered stone/painted stone
Signs unknown painted/red and blue markings on left fragment (illegible)
Visible text "Illegible red/blue markings on left-side fragment; no readable inscription text available."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Illegible red/blue markings on left-side fragment; no readable inscription text available.

Connections

Found at Lisht
Materials Stone

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116280651 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 22.1.128 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546821 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.