An Egyptian Pre-Dynastic Flint Mace Head, Pre-Dynastic Period, ca. 4th millennium BCE Book acquired from Sotheby's

acquired from Sotheby's

and is decorated with a thin double band encircling the rim and another around the tondo

This distinctive type of crescentic axehead with a blade of bronze has often been reported from Luristan

The snake represented the underworld

ball-shaped head

An Egyptian Pre-Dynastic Flint Mace Head, Pre-Dynastic Period, ca. 4th millennium BCE Book acquired from Sotheby'shand carved from flint, the disc shaped form with a carefully bored central hole for insertion of a wooden shaft. One side marked with collection #360. Maces were extensively used in Egypt and neighboring Canaan from the middle of the fourth millennium BCE to the middle of the third. In Mesopotamia, where Sumerian soldiers wore body armor and helmets, their use was limited. Improvements to the mace were few. The Egyptians tried to give them a disk