Egyptian mace head, Naqada I, c.3500 BC
Diorite
Height: 3cm, diameter: 10.1cm
12525 C
Charles Ede, London
Disc-shaped mace head carved from an attractive black and white speckled diorite, the outer edge bevelled, the upper surface slightly concave, the body cone-shaped with concave sides, central hourglass-shaped shaft...
Disc-shaped mace head carved from an attractive black and white speckled diorite, the outer edge bevelled, the upper surface slightly concave, the body cone-shaped with concave sides, central hourglass-shaped shaft hole widening towards the opening at underside and a constriction just before the upper face. The surface retains its original polish. Two minor chips and some wearing to the outer edge.
Provenance
With Galerie Heidi Vollmoeller, Zurich, Switzerland; acquired before 1978John Kasmin, London, UK
Literature
Compare Joan Crowfoot Payne, Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 2000), no.1236, p.148, fig.60Publications
Geschenk des Nils Aegyptische Kunstwerke Aus Schweizer Besitz (Basel, 1978), p.19, no.1032
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