This object is a weapon with a heavy head on a solid shaft used to bludgeon opponents.

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
206 (none) (none) B14933 Mace-head, Alabaster half of Decorated with rope moulding in relief & inscribed: [Annotated] "To Sin, Rimush king of the world, when he had overthrown Elam and Barahse dedicated this from the Elamite booty" Duplicate of an inscription found at Nippur on a vase. See SAKI p. 162 (c) Vase C. [Annotated] Phil Photo 15 [Annotated] Duplicates - 206 [Crossed out] U.236
208 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. White marble. Complete, but top moulding and one side chipped, and part of inscription missing. [Annotated] Dedication of mace head to Nannar bu Ur-Engur for his life. (1) Nannar. (2) lugal-a-ui. (3) Ur-Engur. (4) mtah-kal-gu. (5) lugal Uri-ki-ma. (6) lugal Ki-en-gi ki-uri ge. (7) (uam ti) - la-ui-su. (8) (um) - na-du. [Annotated] Baghdad
221 (none) (none) B14936 Mace. Head. Fr. of, in green crystal, jade color. Inscribed. [Annotated] Dedication by a king, name broken, who smashed the head of Warka and Ur [Annotated] Copied and trans-literated. Placed in P.R. [Annotated] UR R1 6
284 (none) (none) B14937, B14937 Broken mace head. Alabaster. Inscription. Only first line showing, reads "Naram"-(Sin?). Placed in IN/No. 1.
631 (none) (none) (none) Stone mace head(?). [insert] White pebble. Fr. of on the side a roughly engraved hollow, apparently part of a human figure out intaglio. [drawing 1:1]
897 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster fragment. From a figure of a lion (or sirus) carved in very high relief as part of the decoration of a mace head. [drawing]
985 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of small stone mace head. With three line inscription giving someone's name, his father, and his official title.
999 (none) (none) B15199 Mace head. Limestone frit, 3 fragments of originally glazed; pieces fit together and make of original, decorated with four entwined snakes. Photo wanted [drawing]
1543 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. White hard stone (marble?). Incised with 3 vertical bands of 3 lines each. Chipped. [drawing 1:1]
1656 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Yellowish, mottled stone. [drawing]
2760 (none) (none) (none) Votive mace head. Black diorite, uninscribed. Sketch roughly 1:4 showing central boring. Close to U.2758. [drawing 1:4]
3349 (none) (none) (none) Small mace head. Limestone, unadorned: of truncated pear shape: bored from both ends. Diameter of bore ranges 16mm-25mm, greater at ends. In text: Neo-Babylonian period (14) in Cat.
3358 (none) (none) (none) Small mace head. Hematite: apple-shaped with slight excrescence at one end of hole. [drawing 1:1]
6079 (none) (none) (none) Veined mace head. Serpentine? B.
6279 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Black marble? Fragmentary. E.
6430 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. White marble. Pear shaped. B. [drawing]
6431 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Black stone. E.
6625B (none) (none) (none) [A] Copper stem with rounded top. [B] Shaft of stone mace head found with it? E.
7516 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Granite. [drawing cut out, only label 1:1 still visible] Found with U7518 glass cylinder seal. Found with U7517 and clay written impression
7709 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Fragment. Chalcedony? Quartzite? HC.11.
9137 (none) (none) B17361 Copper mace head Heavy copper cylinder with projecting points. Inside, the remains of the wooden handle [drawing] nearly 1:1
9168 (none) (none) B17098 Mace head of white marble. Egg-shaped with flat base. [drawing] ht. 0065 TTg Pg 547
11678 (none) (none) (none) Mace Head. Limestone? Gypsum? On the top, lion devouring another beast(?) On the sides bearded bulls. Inscription(much broken) Dedication to Shamash possibly by Nannar-?(?) son or daughter of AN-BU (?)(of Mari)?
11954 (none) (none) (none) Mace head. Pinkish marble. [drawing 1:1]
14414 31-16-757 (none) (none) Clay mace head. Fragment. Drab clay burnt black in the inside: the shape was the normal globular or oviform with vertical flutings: the surface treated with plum-red paint. [drawing] diam 006, ht 008 Vol IV PFT C6 Level -700
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Rods and Bars

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Votive Maces