Western Asiatic Polished Stone Macehead

3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

3 1/2 in. (377 grams, 91 mm).

With slightly carinated equator to the globular body and tubular shaft. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From the collection of North West London, UK, gentleman, early 2000s.

Literature

See 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.

CONDITION

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