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LOT 1355

Luristan Sar-e Gorz Bronze Macehead

14TH-13TH CENTURY B.C.

2 3/4 in. (279 grams, 70 mm high).

With plain globular body, extended to a small raised ring encircling the top of the mace-head, circular short shaft expanding to a circular flat base.

Provenance

Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.

Literature

For similar examples of maces see Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg (2003), pl.XXXI, no.21 (Luristan).

Footnotes

Caucasian stone and bronze maces were distinguished by modestly finished, clean processed and predominantly close-to-ball shapes (with a variety of surface finishing, ranging from the smooth, ribbed, lobular forms to the rounded with protrusions and spikes), and the Western Iranian maces, especially the Luristan ones, notable for the variety of different forms. Similar mace-heads, probably realised in Luristan, decorated the head of the sceptres of Assyrian kings like Tukulti-Ninurta I (1243-1207 B.C.).

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LOT 1355

Luristan Sar-e Gorz Bronze Macehead

Sold for (Inc. bp): £208

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