Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Finger Ring
56.21.792
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Blue glazed faience finger ring with openwork ring bezel in form of an Eye of Horus (wedjat), a symbol which offered protection to the wearer. Blue with white for sclera of the eye and blue iris. Crack in the shank and mended in 1930s with glue now seeped out. From the Egypt Exploration Society 1923-24 excavations at Tell el-Amarna.