An Egyptian Breccia Mace Head, Old Kingdom, ca. 2700 - 2500 BCE Architectural They have recently been strung

They have recently been strung as a necklace using coin-shaped freshwater baroque pearls and gold-plated spacers

there is a long nose and a vertical line to represent the small mouth

Presented in our Sands of Time custom display box from which it can be easily removed

Portland Art Museum

Their partnership and mutual reign further solidify Osiris’s connection to resurrection

An Egyptian Breccia Mace Head, Old Kingdom, ca. 2700 - 2500 BCE Architectural They have recently been strungThis 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