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LOT 1219
Mesopotamian Cream Stone Macehead
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 3/4 in. (417 grams, 96 mm).
With slightly carinated equator to the globular body and tubular shaft. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx 1990s collection and with a central London gallery.
LiteratureSee Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, pl.XXX, no.47, mace of a deity, detail of the image on the “Stela of Kites” Eanatuma, Ngirsu, mid-3rd millennium B.C.
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