Faience Wadjet Eye AmuletThe Egyptian god Horus was usually depicted in human form but with the head
Faience Wadjet Eye AmuletThe Egyptian god Horus was usually depicted in human form but with the head of a falcon. His eye was taken to represent the sun, whose setting and rising symbolized loss and recovery—a fitting sign for an amulet.Third Intermediate Period, ca. 1090-900 BC. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 74.51.4526 -- source link
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