":::OK, home from work now and time to discuss the heka and nekhekh properly. nekhekh is a magic flail as shown in the complete statue. heka is variously a magic wand, rod, sceptre or crook. Whether it's best wikipedia lists these things as magic or not is up to you. I'm voting not-magic, so it's time to unleash all the sources showing how hooks, flails and sceptres were, and apparently still are mistaken for measuring rods. Then I'm going to bed, to let you all enjoy discussing it.

 Gudea of Lagash with surveyors tools

 - shows how sceptres were mistaken for rods

 - shows how flails were used as measuring rods - in Welsh, but ""Flail Yard"" should be clear enough for people to understand.

 - shows ancient Hebrew flail and measuring rod meaning the same thing.

 - shows flail and measuring rod are the same word in Latin too.

 - Shows ptah statue with measuring rod

 - Flinders Petrie discussing the flail as a measuring cord running from an engraved rod.

 - Recovered from Pithom - Images of supervisors in Egypt, building things with bricks (not farming) - one with flail, another with rod.

 - Direct suggestion that statues in egyptian art carry rods, sometimes depicted with knobs, flowers or hooks at the top.

 - Measuring cords representing justice in Ra iconography.

 - Ivory Rod of King Zet

 - Wedge shaped measuring rods and tape in Egy