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Some officials of the medieval Eastern Roman Empire carried maces for either practical or ceremonial purposes. Notable among the latter is the protoallagator, a military-judicial position that existed by about the 10th century A.D. and whose symbols of office were reported by the Palaiologan writer Pseudo-Kodinos in the 14th century to include a silver-gilt mace (matzouka).
Mace B was made in the reign of William III and Mary II in 1695, is 1.58 m (5.2 ft) long and weighs 11.82 kg (26.1 lb). [22] Top of a royal mace bearing the cypher of Charles II. The House of Commons mace, carried by the Serjeant-at-Arms, [23] is placed on brackets on top of the Table of the House in front of the Speaker.
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Articles relating to ceremonial maces, highly ornamented staffs of metal or wood, carried before a sovereign or other high officials in civic ceremonies by mace-bearers, intended to represent the official's authority. The mace, as used today, derives from the original mace used as a weapon.
A man holding the mace, to show scale. The design of the mace is derived from an ancient battle weapon and the Roman fasces.The ceremonial mace is 46 inches (120 cm) high and consists of 13 ebony rods—representing the original 13 states of the Union—bound together by silver strands criss-crossed over the length of the pole.
A ceremonial mace (English, 17th century) as carried by the monarch's sergeants-at-arms on state occasions. A serjeant-at-arms or sergeant-at-arms [a] is an officer appointed by a deliberative body, usually a legislature, to keep order during its meetings. The word "serjeant" is derived from the Latin serviens, which means "servant".
The Sayala Mace or Seyala Mace is a ceremonial mace made of gold plated wood and stone, from Predynastic Egypt (Naqada IIIa, c. 3200 BC). [1] It was found by Cecil Mallaby Firth in 1910–11 at Sayala [ de ] in Lower Nubia and subsequently kept in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo until it was stolen in 1920. [ 2 ]
Ebla (Inner Syria), ceremonial mace [ edit ] This pharaoh is also known by a ceremonial mace found inside the so-called "Tomb of the Lord of the Goats" in Ebla , in modern northern Syria ; [ 9 ] the mace was a gift from Hotepibre to the Eblaite king Immeya who was his contemporary.