An Egyptian Breccia Mace Head, Old Kingdom, ca. 2700 - 2500 BCE Writing and Manuscripts and the progenitor of mankind

and the progenitor of mankind

in the Central Desert of Australia

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

Below this signature keyhole is stamped with the name of the maker -   P

Provenance:  Vernon Pick private collection

An Egyptian Breccia Mace Head, Old Kingdom, ca. 2700 - 2500 BCE Writing and Manuscripts and the progenitor of mankindThis 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