wadjet

With hieroglyphics and Egyptian deities adorning the interior of this Middle Eastern/Mediterranean restaurant, a drink and food combo both named after the falcon-headed Egyptian god Horus, and a giant wadjet (the protective eye of Horus) on side of the restaurant, it's easy to pretend you are dining in Horus's temple on the banks of the Nile, even if it's just on the banks of Avenue B. Wind down like an Egyptian

Dining 2009

Magical amulets, such as an Eye of Horus (wadjet eye) on display, were worn for protection against evil and disease.

Spellbound in Brooklyn 2009

His Majesty sat with his draperies flattening limply around him like a pricked puffball, his eyes very strange between the solid lines of stibium he had painted on both upper and lower lids, extended out toward the temples in imitation of the antique Eye of Egypt, the wadjet; as he had also painted in thick black brows and whitened the area between them and the black line of the upper lids, Sulla found it absolutely impossible to decide what Ptolemy Alexander's real eyes held.

Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993