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EGYPTIAN LARGE GLAZED COMPOSITION EYE OF HORUS AMULET 22nd Dynasty, Third Intermediate Period, circa 945-715 BC A white openwork amuletic wedjat bead mounted on a collector's card marked 'XXII DYN.Luxor'; with old collector's ticket marked 'Ancient Egyptian. Unusually large and interesting amulet representing the Sacred Eye of Horus in frame. 22nd Dynasty. Light glaze and best style - excavated at Luxor, from Lord Grenfell's collection. 7/6'. 16 grams, 82mm including card (3 1/4"). Fine condition. Provenance Ex Field Marshal Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, GCB, GCMG, PC (1841-1925) collection in 1917, item 7/6; found Luxor in the 19th century, mounted on old collection card with inked inscription, with earlier collection packet with inked inscription. Footnotes The amulet belongs to the collection of Lord Grenfell acquired from the Luxor tomb excavations. Some of the pieces in the BNSS collection were given to the Society by members who knew of Grenfell's interest in Egypt. Many of the more important items were acquired from the 1917 Sotheby’s sale of his personal collection, including a model bakery scene and a model funerary boat from the Aswan tombs. Several of the pieces were probably excavated by Petrie. The bulk of the collection came to Bournemouth as part of a donation from the Blackmore Museum in Salisbury, including a 25th Dynasty mummy in her painted wooden coffin and a selection of funerary items such as Ptah-Sokar-Osiris figures, stelae and shabtis.