Was sceptre

Egyptian religion

• Was sceptre appears in Egyptian religion.

  The Book of the Dead’s funerary image-world shows the was-sceptre, the forked staff of dominion, among gods and the dead’s equipment. A named Egyptian power-staff of that corpus, not a generic staff and not a Greek herald wand.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

  appears in · sourced · documented

• Was sceptre is sacred to Osiris.

  Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris says Egyptians depict Osiris by an eye and a sceptre for forethought and power. A named was-sceptre dominion-staff seat for Osiris in that treatise’s reading, not crook-and-flail already sacred_to Osiris and not the Staff of the Sun festival rod kept apart beside it here.

  from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

  sacred to · sourced · culturally specific

• Was sceptre is historically related to Staff.

  Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris keeps Osiris’s eye-and-sceptre sign beside the separate ‘Staff of the Sun’ festival rod after the autumnal equinox. A named was-sceptre–staff keep-apart in that treatise, not identity of dominion sceptre and solar support-staff.

  from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

  historically related to · sourced · culturally specific

Hellenic religion

• Was sceptre appears in Hellenic religion.

  Plutarch’s Greek Moralia essay carries the Osiris eye-and-sceptre depiction into Hellenic comparative theology. A named was-sceptre seat in that Greek reception, not the egyptian appears_in alone and not a generic Greek sceptre dump onto every king.

  from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

  appears in · sourced · culturally specific