Bidspirit auction | A BRONZE MACE HEAD WITH

A BRONZE MACE HEAD WITH FOUR RECLINING RAMS, LURISTAN, 10TH-8TH CENTURY BC - An elegant bronze mace head from Luristan. The mace head is decorated with four reclining rams with large curved horns, the protruding heads provide the appendages to the mace which would have served originally the function of a weapon. By this period these decorated maces are thought to be ceremonial although their abundance suggests that they may still have been used in warfare. Height: 7.5 cm. Width: 8.4 cm. 10/8th.c.BC. Luristan. PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany Ex auction Hermann Historica Ex estate of E.D., Vienna, Austria