束棒（英语：fasces），音译“法西斯”，在古罗马是权力和威信的标志。束棒是一根被多根绑在一起的木棍围绕的斧头。

在官方场合下高级官员的卫兵在他的前面持束棒来代表到来的官员的级别和权利。按官员的级别的不同，他们的束棒的数量也不等。允许持束棒的官员有最高裁判官、地方长官、最高执政官、总督、独裁官和皇帝。按罗马历史学家的描述上古罗马国王就已经持束棒作为他们权力的代表了。

束棒的捆在一起的木棍代表团结，而斧头（古代用来砍头用的）则代表最高权力。斧头在地中海地区很早就有代表权力的意义了。在罗马胜利游行的过程中特别勇敢的士兵也可以持斧头（但不是束棒）。在罗马的传统中一个官员进入罗马城后束棒的斧头的头必须摘下来，只有独裁者才允许带斧头的头进入罗马城。

Fasces (/ˈfæsiːz/, (Italian:Fasci, Latin pronunciation: [ˈfa.skeːs], a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning "bundle") is a bound bundle of wooden rods, sometimes including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces had its origin in the Etruscan civilization, and was passed on to ancient Rome, where it symbolized a magistrate's power and jurisdiction. The image has survived in the modern world as a representation of magisterial or collective power. The fasces frequently occurs as a charge in heraldry, it is present on an older design of the Mercury dime and behind the podium in the United States House of Representatives, it is used as the symbol of a number of Italian syndicalist groups, including the Unione Sindacale Italiana, and it was the origin of the name of the National Fascist Party in Italy (from which the term fascism is derived).