Thank you for adding these images Ibrahiim, these shapes really are compelling suggestion of these items on the base of these staffs representing or even perhaps having been these kinds of vials. I am not sure of the processes or ceremony of ablutions or how such rituals would be carried out on the field of battle, but as it was a Jihad, certainly such Holy Men would have been present.
I think the similar examples shown here in the thread have shown these were some sort of scepter used by priests, and while these may not have been the actual S/C items in all cases, they may well have been intended to represent them.
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