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6159. Unusually small very early Egyptian heamatite mace head
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An unusually small very early Egyptian heamatite mace head Though not well made and somewhat worse for the wear of time, this small mace head is only 40mm high and 45mm broad at the top. The perforation is as it should be for good hafting on a wooden stick, narrower at the top than at the bottom. There is a small area of green crystaline salts on one side: a green ferrous salt or possibly an Olivine inclusion. As this mace head is made in haematite it is therefore unusually heavy for its size at 220 grams! Presumably Egyptian but could be Anatolian too. In either case could be as early as early 4th millennium. BC Fairly well made haematite mace heads are found in the Egyptian pre-Dynastic/Naqada period, ( the disc shaped type in Naqada I) but as as it is not well formed but would make a formidable weapon in this very heavy stone I wonder if indeed that's what it was, rather than a funerary , votive or ceremonial item as so many such stone mace heads are thought to be. Naqada II to Late Pre-Dynastic circa 3200 BC |
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Price: 635 GBP
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