Finger Ring

M11896b

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Brown glazed faience finger ring with openwork ring bezel in form of an Eye of Horus (wedjat), a symbol which offered protection to the wearer. Brown with white for the sclera of the eye and brown for the iris. Gatty Slip (1873): 9 porcelain finger rings ornamented with right symbolic eye. One of these is labelled 1365. Mayer Inventory (1928): Nine faience finger ring, ornamented with the right symbolic eye.