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Eye ring

Eye ring

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£1.37 GBP
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Ancient or Antique agate “eye” bead ring. These agate “eye” beads are rare and were valued from ancient times, as a protective amulet against the “evil eye”.


The ring is late eighteenth century high carat gold.

Measurements of bezel : 17 x 14 mm

Ring size : Q+1/2
An eye bead or naẓar (from Arabic ‏نَظَر‎ [ˈnaðˤar], meaning 'sight', 'surveillance', 'attention', and other related concepts) is an eye-shaped amulet believed by many to protect against the evil eye. The term is also used in Azerbaijani, Bengali, Hebrew, Hindi–Urdu, Kurdish, Pashto, Persian, Punjabi, Turkish and other languages.[1] In Turkey, it is known by the name nazar boncuğu[2] (the latter word being a derivative of boncuk, "bead" in Turkic, and the former borrowed from Arabic), in Greece is known as máti (μάτι, 'eye'). In Persian and Afghan folklore, it is called a cheshm nazar(Persian: چشم نظر) or nazar qurbāni (نظرقربانی).[3] In India and Pakistan, the Hindi-Urdu slogan chashm-e-baddoor is used to ward off the evil eye.[4] In the Indian subcontinent, the phrase nazar lag gai is used to indicate that one has been affected by the evil eye
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Stock Code: PS75

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