Details

LOT 0293

Elamite Sar-e-Gorz Spiked Bronze Macehead

LATE 2ND-EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

7 1/8 in. (443 grams total, 18 cm including stand).

With three adjoining bull heads in high-relief to the top, with three ears and three horns serving all three heads; the horns curving towards the rim of the closed top; the shaft adorned with vertical rows of pointed spikes; hollow socket tube with ring collar at the base; mounted on a collector base.

Provenance

London, UK gallery, 1971-early 2000s.
Private collection, London.

Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11997-22061.

Literature

Cf. Mahboubian, H., Art of Ancient Iran, Copper and Bronze, London, 1997, fig.175, p.168, for a very similar type; see also Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron, Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, no.394, again for similar typology; Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, for discussion on the maces and for a sceptre with similar head from Elam (plate XXXI, no.85).