Another possible theory is that Narmer was an immediate successor to the king who did manage to unify Egypt ( perhaps the King Scorpion whose name was found on a macehead also discovered in Hierakonpolis ), but he adopted symbols of unification that had already been in use for perhaps a generation.
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The flail later was closely related to the " heqa "-scepter ( the crook and flail ), but in early representations the king was also depicted solely with the flail, as shown in a late pre-dynastic knife handle which is now in the Metropolitan museum, and on the Narmer Macehead.
