An Egyptian Indurated Limestone Mace Head, Pre-Dynastic Period, ca. 3500 - 3200 BCE Gods & Goddesses Desert Designs on King

Desert Designs on King

Originally

and flared feathers at the neck and back

Artist: Liddy Napanangka Walker

Such pendants were made across the Levant

An Egyptian Indurated Limestone Mace Head, Pre-Dynastic Period, ca. 3500 - 3200 BCE Gods & Goddesses Desert Designs on KingThe 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