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Crook and Flail
Wikipedia, accessed 2026
Wikipedia's article on the crook and flail, cited here for the Predynastic Gerzeh-culture origin of the crook, the Second Dynasty pairing of the two objects, the Tutankhamun tomb example's construction, and the scholarly disagreement over what the flail was before it became regalia. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: a well-referenced tertiary account naming its own scholarly sources (Wilkinson, Budge, Newberry) for the contested question of the flail's origin, and giving the earliest known crook find (Gerzeh culture, Naqada II, tomb U547 at Abydos) and the Tutankhamun tomb example's construction, none of which the entity's existing tier-1 source (Redford) is confirmed to state. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crook_and_flail
Source Typeencyclopedia
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This source names Tutankhamun directly: "pairing of the two objects, the Tutankhamun tomb example's construction, and the scholarly disagreement over what the flail was before it became regalia."
Source Crook and Flail
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 connected, 2 general references.
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