mace

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Object Type
Museum number: 91146
Description: Mace head; carved from pink marble; perforated, polished and incised with votive inscription of Shar-kali-sharri to Shamash at Sippar.
Authority
Cultures/periods
Production date: 2400BC-2200BC
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Abu Habba (Sippar)
Materials
Technique: carved; perforated; polished; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 5.70 centimetres; Height: 6.60 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Walker CBF & Collon 1980a / Hormuzd Rassam's excavations for the British Museum at Sippar in 1881-1882 (pp.100-101); Rassam H 1897a / Asshur and the Land of Nimrod (p.277, footnote) (probably the same object); Sollberger E & Kupper J R 1971a / Inscriptions royales sumériennes et akkadiennes (IVH2a); Frayne, RIME 2 / Sargonic and Gutian Periods (RIM.E.2.1.5.9)
Location: On display (G56/dc11)
Associated names: Named in inscription: Shamash; Named in inscription: Shar-kali-sharri
Acquisition date: 1883
Acquisition notes: Wrongly registered as part of Nineveh collection.
Department: Middle East
BM/Big number: 91146
Registration number: 1883,0118.700

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