A large Egyptian Diorite Wedjet Amulet set as a pendant, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Chains - 20" Yellow Gold 1970s with old Merrin Gallery

1970s with old Merrin Gallery label affixed to the base

A flat-backed inlay depicting a three-dimensional bunch of ripe grapes

and labor obligations

Medium: Blue/green Jadeite

A large storage jar with a flat bottom

A large Egyptian Diorite Wedjet Amulet set as a pendant, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BCE Chains - 20" Yellow Gold 1970s with old Merrin GalleryOf fine black and white speckled diorite, the profile detail depicted only, as usual for the type, drilled longitudinally for suspension. This type of larger stone wedjet eye is often used as a funerary amulet. The wedjet eye was supposedly the eye that Seth tore from Horus during a battle over who would lead the gods. Thoth healed the injured eye, returning it to Horus as the "sound one." Wedjet eye amulets were used from the Old Kingdom through the