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Sackler Gallery at the Smithsonian Institute culminating in an exhibition and published catalogue in 2000
acquired from the NY trade in 2018
acquired in the mid 1960's and then by descent to present owner
Sesostris I
In the form of a large
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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