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During the Third Intermediate Period, (1070 BC- 664 BC) examples of multiple wedjat eyes appear, in belief that more protection would be bestowed upon the wearer than with a single Wedjat . Some are just one eye placed upon the other and others are often carved into a scaraboid form.
(See also scaraboid multiple eyes of horus)
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| Faience Triple Wedjat Eye. Once a property of the Royal Athena Galleries. During the Third Intermediate Period, examples of multiple wedjat eyes appear, in belief that more protection would be bestowed upon the wearer. (http://www.fragmentsoftime.com/faience_triple_wedjat_eye.htm) |
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| Triple Wedjage www.antiquesnavigator.com/ |
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| A fine spacer from a three-strand necklace with
representations of nine udjat eyes (the Eye of Horus).( source http://www.uned.es/) |
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| This rare faience amulet is a disk that presents a convex side with
twenty eight human eyes neatly arranged in four rows, and a flat reverse side with a single, large, deeply engraved Udjat eye with the traditional black markings. It was probably worn as a pendant, offering twenty nine times the magic power of a single eye pendant. “The function of an eye amulet, reinforced by multiple forms, was the provision of sight in the Other World.” (Andrews 1994:69-70) (http://www.virtualegyptianmuseum.org/) |
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