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LOT 1158
Western Asiatic Finned Macehead
CIRCA 1000 B.C.
2 5/8 in. (310 grams, 67 mm).
With eight projecting vertical flanges and a circular shaft hole. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, see pl.XXXI, no.98, for identical spearhead from Armenia (Astkhadzor, beginning of the 1st millennium B.C.).
Footnotes
In the Caucasus, the combat mace was very popular throughout the late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. The maces could have spiked bronze knobs or often less corrugated, or round, knobs which could also be effectively used.
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