Sceptre of Thutmose

“The wood is long gone. The gold held for three and a half thousand years.”

• Rarity: Epic
• Metal: Gold
• Kind: Jewellery and dress fittings
• Set: The Thutmose Hoard

Where to find the Sceptre of Thutmose

The Sceptre of Thutmose is one of the epic artefacts buried in FieldHunters, a free online metal detecting game. Hunters sweep a shared field with a metal detector, follow the signal and dig — and epic pieces like this one are among the rarest things that come out of the ground. There is no way to buy it: it has to be dug up.

The The Thutmose Hoard set

Scattered in an ancient looting, never fully recovered.

The pieces of this set:

• Cartouche Fragment · Common
• Granary Token · Common
• Nefertiti's Crown · Legendary
• Nile Fibula · Uncommon
• Reed Pen Nib · Common
• Saqqara Torque · Rare
• Sceptre of Thutmose · Epic
• Scribe's Ring · Uncommon

About jewellery and dress fittings

Brooches, fibulae, pendants, torcs and amulets were both fashion and function: they fastened clothes, showed status and, often, were believed to protect the wearer. The torc, a rigid twisted neck ring, was a mark of high rank among Iron Age peoples. Fibulae — ancient safety-pin brooches — changed style so often that archaeologists use them to date the sites they are found on.

More epic artefacts

• Signet of Office
• Spark Pendant
• Talon of the Aquila
• Transmutation Token
• Umpire's Counter
• Vernal Torc Terminal

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