Inlaid eye from a wooden coffin. Copper alloy (bronze) frame with white (ostrich egg?) shell inlay. The pupil is now missing, as is part of the metal frame. Heavy corrosion. The eye is a pair with W626, which were recovered from tomb 691 at Sanam (Nubia). Tomb 691, which dates to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, was excavated during the 1912–13 season of the University of Oxford Excavations in Nubia led by Francis Llewellyn Griffith. The tomb record reads as: "Cave tomb, 15 steep steps, drop of 70 to narrow platform before embrasure, approach L. 380, W. 100–120, total D. 380, main chamber 600 by 180, with two side chambers, axis 320. On floor of main chamber, pair of bronze eyes and eyebrows from a wooden coffin, the former inlaid with white (ostrich egg?) shell on which is fixed a raised disc of obsidian? as pupil; fragments of hollow bronze; some bluish glaze tubular and ring beads; [smaller green and yellow glaze tubular beads; a few small yellow red green and black ring beads; small yellow ball beads]. In entrance, sandstone table of offerings with papyrus stem in middle and 8 loaves between hes vases, 40 by 35, including spout." The eyes were presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1921, although there is no mention of the eyebrows in the Wellcome registration records. The pupils were present during the registration, but have since been lost.

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