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An Egyptian Indurated Limestone Mace Head, Pre-Dynastic Period, ca. 3500 - 3200 BCE Amulets - GGSA Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian

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Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute culminating in an exhibition and published catalogue in 2000

The wide shallow body sits on a low foot with convex bottom and externally incorporates a narrow concave rim-band

In the form of a large

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An Egyptian Indurated Limestone Mace Head, Pre-Dynastic Period, ca. 3500 - 3200 BCE Amulets - GGSA Sackler Gallery at the SmithsonianThe teardrop shaped head pierced longitudinally for attachment to a wooden shaft, carved from a creamy indurated limestone. Background: The mace is a basic hand held weapon, halfway between a club and a hammer. Symbols of military might, Egyptian iconography is rife with depictions of Egyptian leaders smiting enemies with a mace, and some of the earliest tangible documentation of Dynastic Egypt was provided by ceremonial mace heads, such as that of

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