IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 52154 accession number: E.136.1921 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Faience wedjat eye. this form of amulet was meant to protect the wearer from evil and represented the eye of the god Horus. It is a traditional Egyptian motif and was often placed within grave assemblages. From grave 914. object type: Faience wedjat eye. title: amulet LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/52154 TECHNIQUES ---------- mouldmade CATEGORIES ------ category: jewellery DATING ------ creation date: 701 - 601 creation date earliest: 701 creation date latest: 601 culture: Meroitic culture: Third Intermediate period DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: m value: 0.029 dimension: Length units: m value: 0.04 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_136_1921.jpg height: 630 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/mid_E_136_1921.jpg height: 414 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/E_136_1921.jpg height: 630 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant32/preview_E_136_1921.jpg height: 207 pixels width: 250 pixels