thumb|upright|Relief carving of Darius the Great of [[Persia on his throne, holding a sceptre and lotus]] A sceptre (spelled scepter in American English) is a staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia, signifying sovereign authority.
thumb|upright|Relief carving of Darius the Great of [[Persia on his throne, holding a sceptre and lotus]] A sceptre (spelled scepter in American English) is a staff or wand held in the hand by a ruling monarch as an item of royal or imperial insignia, signifying sovereign authority.
==Antiquity==
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).