Papyrus+Specter

Papyrus Scepter


 * Other Names:**

// Wadj, Uadj, // or //Aba Mnhy//


 * Hieroglyphics:**



The Papyrus Scepter was an amulet buried with the dead to ensure their vigor and the renewal of youth. It was a papyrus column, often decorated with the leaves and stems of the papyrus plant. In hieroglyphic script a stylized papyrus stem was used in words such as "green" and "flourishing," and thus the dead hoped to be reborn like a flourishing papyrus.

Also a symbol of the protective goddess Wadjet, the Papyrus Specter was an important enough amulet to merit its own spell in the Book of the Dead. Various goddesses, such as Sekhmet or Hathor are sometimes shown holding it. Examples have been found made of gold, faience, turquoise, lapis lazuli, feldspar, and green quartz.

The Pyramid Texts say: "Your papyrus scepter is in your hand, Hathor. May you smite and govern at your translation to the possessors of honor, for you belong to those who surround Ra, you who are the Morning Star."

Spell of the Papyrus Specter

Magical Amulets