An Egyptian Breccia Mace Head, Old Kingdom, ca. 2700 - 2500 BCE Writing and Manuscripts creating a graceful pendant that

creating a graceful pendant that beautifully highlights the luminous contrast between the two ancient stones

Medium:  Faience

Accounts make it clear that indigenous peoples practiced taking and displaying human heads as trophies

Condition: Fragmentary as noted with ancient loss to the left knee and the object formerly held in the raised right hand

shown seated with legs drawn up and arms bent

An Egyptian Breccia Mace Head, Old Kingdom, ca. 2700 - 2500 BCE Writing and Manuscripts creating a graceful pendant thatThis stone mace head is a surviving example of one of humanity's earliest and most enduring weapons. Carefully shaped into a rounded, pear like form and pierced longitudinally for attachment to a wooden shaft, it would originally have served as the striking head of a mace, a weapon used throughout Egypt from the Predynastic Period onward. While practical in function, the mace quickly assumed a symbolic role in Egyptian society. By the dawn of the