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Scepter

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The ruled staff of kingship — orb’s partner in regalia. Not staff the bare walking stick, and not sekhem-sceptre Egyptian id.

Also known as Sceptre

Hellenic religion

  • Scepter appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names scepters among the hand-marks of gods and kings in cult statues. A named scepter in that periegesis, not was-sceptre as the Egyptian power-staff already filed and not a fairy wand dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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