An Egyptian Breccia Mace Head, Old Kingdom, ca. 2700 - 2500 BCE Writing and Manuscripts and discoloration consistent with long

and discoloration consistent with long exposure

and the progenitor of mankind

acquired before 1979 and then by descent

A very pretty pair of gold drop earrings with glass stones suspended

Solid cast in the round using the lost wax method and elegantly proportioned

An Egyptian Breccia Mace Head, Old Kingdom, ca. 2700 - 2500 BCE Writing and Manuscripts and discoloration consistent with longThis 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