Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Mace Head

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Description

Object Label: Masterpieces of Stone Carving During the Predynastic Period, Egyptians mastered the working of even the hardest stone. They especially favored attractively colored stones, like the porphyry, breccia, and obsidian shown here. To create the mace head (war club) and jar in this case, an artisan laboriously ground and polished the stones with increasingly fine abrasives. A method called flaking—carefully applying pressure with another stone—produced the serrated obsidian object. Caption: Mace Head, ca. 4000–3400 B.C.E.. Porphyry, 15/16 x 3 9/16 in. (2.4 x 9.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.873. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 07.447.873 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 4234 tier-2
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