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Horse Blinker with an Egyptian Wedjat Eye in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2008
Horse Blinker with an Egyptian-type Wedjat Eye ("Eye of Horus")
Ivory
Mesopotamia, excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Fort Shalmaneser, Room SW 37
Neo-Assyrian period, Phoenician style, 8th century BC
Accession # 60.145.4
This is one of a number of ivory and stone objects of distinctive forms that identify them as blinkers placed on either side of a horse's head in order to focus its eyes forward.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
Ivory
Mesopotamia, excavated at Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), Fort Shalmaneser, Room SW 37
Neo-Assyrian period, Phoenician style, 8th century BC
Accession # 60.145.4
This is one of a number of ivory and stone objects of distinctive forms that identify them as blinkers placed on either side of a horse's head in order to focus its eyes forward.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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