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Wolfram Grajetzki is, of course, well aware of the fact that female Court-Type burials contain muddled gender-related goods. Nor can we really explain the weapons and regalia as a means of projecting their worldly power: if anything, there seems to be a decrease in women's and thus queens' status in the Middle Kingdom. Yet I don't think for a moment that she was a warrior-woman in any way, shape, or form. She was, it seems, quite ready to have a battle royal. She also had a full panopoly of royal sceptres and staffs, a beaded flail (similar to that on the left), two bows, an alabaster mace with a gold-mounted shaft, a rock crystal mace-head, and a copper dagger with gilded wooden sheath. Her mummy was adorned with loads of jewellery (three broad collars, gold necklaces, gold hair ornaments made of 98 golden rosettes, armlets, anklets, and much much more). Despite not having a royal title, she nonetheless had a 'Court Type' burial.

Lady Senebtisi lacked nothing when it came to worldly goods. Horus has brought Seth to thee, he has given him to thee, bowed down under thee. The pharaoh was considered to be an incarnation of the falcon god Horus, the posthumous son of Osiris, a divine king slain by his brother, Seth.

Its staying power may well lie in its echo of the cosmic conflict between the gods Horus and Seth, their everlasting battle of good against evil, and the victory of order over chaos. In fact, this is probably the longest-lasting and best-attested image in Egyptian culture. Perhaps this was because the mace is a weapon requiring great force, rather than any particular skill, and so became a symbol of overwhelming power.īut that alone does not explain why the mace-wielding smiting scene endured for some 3,000 years: even Egypt's Roman pharaohs continued to crush opponents with a mace, at least on temple walls. As one of the earliest weapons in ancient Egypt, the skull-smashing mace became a source of royal prowess long after it was abandoned as a practical weapon. But why a mac e? Maces are basically only wooden clubs with a head made of some heavy and hard material, in this case stone. The depiction of the king on foot with mace raised ready to crack the skulls of his enemies is very ancient and it doesn't change much over time. Your mace is over the head of every foreign land.

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