Currently not on view
Macehead,
ca. 4000–3500 BCE
Egyptian
Predynastic Period, Naqada I or Early Naqada II, ca. 5400–3100 BCE
1998-429
Information
Title
Macehead
Dates
ca. 4000–3500 BCE
Medium
Stone
Dimensions
diam. 9.9 cm (3 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
Object Number
1998-429
Culture
Period
Type
Materials
By bequest to the Museum in 1998
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Important classical, Egyptian, and western Asiatic antiquities and Islamic works of art: including an Egyptian wood figure of Tutankhamun ... : auction ... December 8, 1995 : exhibition ... December 2-7 ..., (New York: Sotheby's, 1995).
, lot 213 -
"The checklist of the John B. Elliott Bequest," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 61 (2002): p. 49-99.
, p. 97