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LOT 1297
Western Asiatic Stone Macehead
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 7/8 in. (459 grams, 74 mm).
Piriform with narrow socket.
Provenance
From a West London, UK, collection, 1980-1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, see pl.XXXI, no.30, from Armenia, for similar.
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