Gold Foil

Thin strip of gold with Wadjet (Eye of Horus) engraved at each end: one end perforated, the other end broken off. Fine technique. Joseph Mayer, Catalogue of the Egyptian Museum, No. VIII, Colquitt Street, Liverpool (Liverpool, 1852), page 19: "No. 208. Gold, Plates of, consisting of ornaments, small ear-rings, of Anubis, the eye of Osiris, taken from various parts of mummies"; Joseph Sams catalogue, page 60, no. 257.