Ca. 3600 - 3100 BC. A rare mace head carved from stone, exhibiting smoothly polished surfaces across its apple-shaped form and vertically pierced with a long tubular drilled hole. The rarity of this example stems from the material. For similar see: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number: 10.176.100. Reviewed by Simone Musso, consultant curator for Egyptian antiquities at the Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy, member of the Nuri Archaeological Expedition. Size: 75mm x 70mm; Weight: 530g Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1990s.