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Scorpion Macehead

Scorpion Macehead

archaeological artefact · limestone

The 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. It measures 25 centimeters long, is made of limestone, is pear-shaped, and is attributed to the pharaoh Scorpion due to the glyph of a scorpion engraved close to the image of a king wearing the White Crown of Upper Egypt.

material
limestone
held at
Ashmolean Museum · art museum

The journey

found at
Nekhen
now in
Ashmolean Museum
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