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Courtesy Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums
Ivory scepters with pomegranates. Part of a cache of objects found in a temple at Lachish in the 1930s by the Wellcome Marston Archaeological Expedition, these scepters are approximately 9½ inches long and date to the 13th century B.C.
The ivory pomegranate described in this article may also be part of a scepter; if so, its rod was probably one foot long and the result would have looked much like these graceful scepters.