A WAS (DOMINION) SCEPTRE BAR, in the form of a Seth-headed terminal, mosaic technique, with cobalt blue matrix and opaque white, dark 'aubergine' and red canes; and a slice of the same

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A WAS (DOMINION) SCEPTRE BAR, in the form of a Seth-headed terminal, mosaic technique, with cobalt blue matrix and opaque white, dark 'aubergine' and red canes; and a slice of the same
3rd-1st Century B.C.
2.3cm. high; 1¼in. (3.2cm.) thick (2)

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The head of Seth, the god of confusion and contraction, whose nephew Horus avenged his father Osiris's murder, is shown variously with different animal heads, such as a pig or donkey

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