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LOT 0512
Egyptian Ceremonial Mace Head
PREDYNASTIC PERIOD, 4TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 3/8 in. (322 grams total, 87 mm high including stand).
A spherical ceremonial stone mace head; centrally drilled; mounted on a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From an old UK collection.
From the private collection of Alf Baxendale (1941-2016) part 2, keen Egyptologist, member of the Egyptology Society, trustee of the Amarna Trust; thence by descent.
Accompanied by an identification display card.
Accompanied by a copy of his obituary published in Horizon, The Amarna Project and Amarna Trust newsletter, Issue 18, 2017, p.21, by Barry John Kemp, CBE, FBA, Professor Emeritus of Egyptology at the University of Cambridge and directing excavations at Amarna in Egypt.
Footnotes
Mace heads were prized to such a degree that they were carried by chieftains as sceptres.
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