The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

5. ⁂. The instrument in the hand of the deceased. Though the

determinative is ⁂, it does not necessarily mean that it is made of wood; it may be the determinative of weapons in general. It has prongs, which are compared to nails or claws, so that it probably is a weapon like the bident for spearing fishes, the tines of which are held together by a string (Wilkinson, _Manners and Customs_, 2nd edition, Vol. II, p. 107). Otherwise it is not unlike a netting needle (Wilkinson, _loc. cit._, p. 175). If it is a weapon, one does not very well understand why it is said to belong to the net.