- A
sceptre (or
scepter in
American English) is a
staff or wand held in the hand by a
ruling monarch as an item of
royal or
imperial insignia, signifying...
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sekhem scepters: one for Set and
another for Horus. Elsewhere,
Horus and Seth
appear as "the Two Sekhems" (sḫmwy). A late
variant of this type of
scepter hieroglyph...
- (tr.
Kieschnick 2003:151)
During the Qing
dynasty (1644–1912 AD), ruyi
scepters became luxuriant symbols of
political power that were
regularly used in...
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Manikin scepters are
objects that were held by Maya
rulers to
signify their power and authority. The term
scepter is deceiving,
because the
object is...
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Enchanted Scepters is a point-and-click
adventure game,
released in 1984. The
player must find the four fire, earth, air and
water scepters hidden across...
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Scepter Records was an
American record company founded in 1959 by
Florence Greenberg.
Florence Greenberg founded Scepter Records from the $4,000 she received...
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sometimes considered its
oldest part, and
dating from the 7th century, the
scepter of
Dagobert was
stored in the
treasure of the
Basilica of Saint-Denis (also...
- The
Scepter of
Judah (Hebrew:
Shebet Yehuda שבט יהודה) was a text
produced by the
Sephardi historian Solomon Ibn Verga. It
first appeared in the Ottoman...
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general symbol of
authority in
ancient Egypt. One of the
earliest royal scepters was
discovered in the tomb of
Khasekhemwy in Abydos.
Kings were also known...
- The
scepter of
Charles V, also
known in the
early modern period as
scepter of Charlemagne, is one of the most
prominent preserved regalia of the Kingdom...
