A Luristan ceremonial bronze macehead of tubular shape, with two offset groups of projecting spikes and decorated with both vertical and horizontal twisted-rope borders in relief.
Fine condition; complete and intact; good stable bronze with patches of olive-green patination; with accretions.
Iron-Age: Luristan area of Western Persia:
Circa 9th-8th century BC.
It is thought that such items may have been mounted on a shaft as a symbol of rank, perhaps derivative from a true weapon of similar form.
cf. item 97; Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmoleon Museum by P.R.S. Moorey; Oxford University Press 1971
...A Luristan ceremonial bronze macehead of tubular shape, with two offset groups of projecting spikes and decorated with both vertical and horizontal twisted-rope borders in relief.
Fine condition; complete and intact; good stable bronze with patches of olive-green patination; with accretions.
Iron-Age: Luristan area of Western Persia:
Circa 9th-8th century BC.
It is thought that such items may have been mounted on a shaft as a symbol of rank, perhaps derivative from a true weapon of similar form.
cf. item 97; Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmoleon Museum by P.R.S. Moorey; Oxford University Press 1971