An Egyptian Indurated Limestone Mace Head, Pre-Dynastic Period, ca. 3500 - 3200 BCE Gods & Goddesses some possible late Hellenistic date

some possible late Hellenistic date (3rd C BCE)

Such pendants were made across the Levant

Coventry Gallery

and flared feathers at the neck and back

These stories have been passed down for millennia

An Egyptian Indurated Limestone Mace Head, Pre-Dynastic Period, ca. 3500 - 3200 BCE Gods & Goddesses some possible late Hellenistic dateThe 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