Mace Head

1st century BCE-1st century CE

14 cm 8.9 cm

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This mace terminates in a young bull's head. The ornaments on the forehead--a star and crescent moon--the eyes, and the decorative semicircles on the jaws were once inlaid; remnants of bitumen and shell (?) inlay remain in the eye. The size and ornamentation of the mace indica...

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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