Sekhem scepter

When the king held a sekhem scepter in his right hand, he would usually hold a mace or censer in the left.

From the earliest times, viziers and other officials of important rank held the sekhem, symbolizing the individual's successful life and prestigious position.

The classic Egyptian funerary statue depicted the deceased with a staff in one hand, and the sekhem in the other.

In this type of iconographic representation, the sekhem is often given two eyes, which were carved or painted on the scepter's upper part as a symbol indicating that it was the manifestation of divine power.

In such cases, the scepter was held in the right hand and was waved four or five times over the offerings while ritual recitations were made.

A late variant of this type of scepter hieroglyph sometimes represented the sistrum,[1] a musical rattle that was sacred to Hathor and carried by her priestesses.