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The Narmer macehead is an ancient Egyptian decorative stone mace head. [1] It was found in the "main deposit" in the temple area of the ancient Egyptian city of Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) by James Quibell in 1898. [2] It is dated to the Early Dynastic Period reign of king Narmer (c. 31st century BC) whose serekh is engraved on it.
The ancient Romans did not make wide use of maces, probably because of the influence of armour, and due to the nature of the Roman infantry's fighting style which involved the Pilum (spear) and the Gladius (short sword used in a stabbing fashion), though auxiliaries from Syria Palestina were armed with clubs and maces at the battles of Immae ...
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 [] in Lower Nubia and subsequently kept in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo until it was stolen in 1920. [2]
The Scorpion macehead (also known as the Major Scorpion macehead) is a decorated ancient Egyptian macehead found by British archeologists James E. Quibell and Frederick W. Green in what they called the main deposit in the temple of Horus at Hierakonpolis during the dig season of 1897–1898. [1]
Tishtrya's mace, a mace wielded by Tishtrya that can create lightning and tornados. (Persian mythology) Gorz-e gāvsār, an ox-headed mace described in various Iranian and Zoroastrian myths that is used as a symbol of victory and justice. [10] (Persian mythology) Yagrush and Ayamur, two clubs created by Kothar and used by Baal to defeat Yam.
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).
The ancient Egyptian horizontally-outstretched Arm with powerstick is a hieroglyph with the meaning of "force", or "power of action". As a baton, or macehead.Power is obvious, but the origins may have also had references to magic, or the idea of driving-off evil spirits or omens.
Standard with an image of the god Wepwawet, between 722 and 332 BC, Late Period of ancient Egypt. Museo Egizio , Turin. Over time, the connection to war and thus to death led to Wepwawet also being seen as one who opened the ways to, and through, Duat , for the spirits of the dead.