Mace Head, late 2nd millennium BC

  • Iranian

Cast bronze

  • Height x Diameter: 3 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (9.19 x 5.38 cm)

Gift of Ahmad Biabani

70.972

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

P.R.S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, p. 90 similar mace-heads discussed and dated, type derives from stone prototypes, p. 89 fig. 18, pl. 9 fig. 90, ill.

Iranian, Mace Head, late 2nd millennium BC, Cast bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Ahmad Biabani, 70.972.