An Egyptian Carnelian Wedjat eye Pendant, New Kingdom, 18th - 19th Dynasty, ca. 1550 - 1290 BCE Royal accession number: 1994

accession number: 1994

and household well-being

the rings of high-ranking ecclesiastics often have amethysts as their center stones

Presents well

perhaps with the intention to hold back plagues

An Egyptian Carnelian Wedjat eye Pendant, New Kingdom, 18th - 19th Dynasty, ca. 1550 - 1290 BCE Royal accession number: 1994Without doubt, the best known of all protective amulets is the wedjat, literally 'the sound one', referring to the eye of the falcon headed Horus after it had been plucked out during one of his interminable battles with Seth and then healed by Thoth. This Horus was the celestial falcon and great creator god whose right eye was the sun and left eye the moon. It is generally supposed that the wedjat was the moon eye, which was 'injured' as it waned and