amulet

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Object Type: amulet
Museum number: 133736
Description: Eye of Horus composition amulet. With the remains of an incised design of an udjat-eye; pierced horizontally.
Cultures/periods: Phoenician (site)
Production date: 8thC BC-3rdC BC (site)
Findspot: Found/Acquired: Tharros, Grave 19
Materials: glazed composition
Technique: incised; pierced
Dimensions: Length: 1 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Barnett & Mendleson 1987a / Tharros; A Catalogue of Material in the British Museum from Phoenician and other Tombs at Tharros, Sardinia (19/40)
Location: Not on display
Condition: Fair
Subjects: eye of horus
Associated names: Emblem of: Horus
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Barbetti
Acquisition date: 1856
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 133736
Registration number: 1856,1223.1182

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