Sacred Eye Udjat

ca. 945-525 BCE (Third Intermediate-Late Period)

3.6 cm 2.3 cm 0.6 cm

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The Udjat-eye (also called Horus-eye) was one of the most popular amulets in Ancient Egypt. The eye symbolizes legitimate kingship, it secures the life of the sun-god, and also of other deities, as well as human beings. In the Horus myth the eye was stolen from its legitimate...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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