Amulets (Ear and 3 Eyes)

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Africa

New Kingdom (about 1550–1069 BCE)

Egyptian

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Amulets (Ear and 3 Eyes)
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1550 BCE–1069 BCE
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: Eyes: 2.5 × 1 × 0.3 cm (1 × 3/8 × 1/8 in.); Ear: 3.5 × 1.9 × 0.5 cm (1 3/8 × 3/4 × 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of the President and the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund from Temple of Der el Bahari
Reference Number: 1897.289L
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 122.
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 38.

Egypt Exploration Fund; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1897.

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