Scorpion Macehead
Scorpion macehead (Ashmolean Museum)
Details, at the time of discovery in Hierakonpolis.
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] It measures 25 centimeters long, is made of limestone, is pear-shaped, and is attributed to the pharaoh Scorpion (c. 3200–3000 BCE) due to the glyph of a scorpion engraved close to the image of a king wearing the White Crown of Upper Egypt.[2]
A second, smaller macehead fragment showing Scorpion wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt is referred to as the "Minor Scorpion macehead".[3]
- ^ The Ancient Egypt Site – The Narmer Palette Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine, accessed September 19, 2007
- ^ Millet 1991: Figure 2
- ^ Yurco 1995: Figure 1