An Egyptian Carnelian Wedjat eye Pendant, New Kingdom, 18th - 19th Dynasty, ca. 1550 - 1290 BCE Price - $5500 - $10000 symbolizing the soul’s passage

symbolizing the soul’s passage

highlights the owner's status and suggests that it was commissioned for an individual of means

the surface displays natural banding and veining in warm brown and cream tones

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An Egyptian Carnelian Wedjat eye Pendant, New Kingdom, 18th - 19th Dynasty, ca. 1550 - 1290 BCE Price - $5500 - $10000 symbolizing the soul’s passageWithout 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