Ancient Egyptian eye inlay from bull mummy from Armant Baqaria dated 664 – 30 BC

An intact inlay (its right?) eye from a bull’s mummy. It is made up of several pieces of different coloured glass? The eye is framed by an eye shaped oval (peaking at the tearduct and opposite edge of the eye) made of blue glass (now beige on the Inside this frame are set, a near disc shaped piece of blue glass? now marbled in appearance (possibly always tinted?), around which is set a crescent moon shaped piece of white glass? (now partly beige on the surface). Both peaks in the frame are filled with two triangular shapes of red glass, their one curved edge fitting against the white crescent. This item is backed with a block of wax (ancient? or done at time of excavation?) Cracks to frame of eye, and central disc may indicate that fell apart when removed from the mummy and that the wax is modern.
Colour: red & white & blue

Ancient Egyptian eye inlay from bull mummy from Armant Baqaria dated 664 – 30 BC

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  • Longitude: 32.533333