Maces, Sceptres, Staves
This category includes objects that are fastened to long poles with a topping of some sort.
This category includes objects that are fastened to long poles with a topping of some sort. They are not strictly tools weapons, even though some of them may have been used as such, but may be more of a votive object than a functional object.
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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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 60 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze pointed Rod. ? spear butt? |
| 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] |
| 1718 | (none) | (none) | B15610 | Fragment of shaft (top only) of bitumen paste(?); round at top, hexagonally grooved below. [drawing 2:5] |
| 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. |
| 6533 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper bar. |
| 6625A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper stem with rounded top. [B] Shaft of stone mace head found with it? E. |
| 6625B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A] Copper stem with rounded top. [B] Shaft of stone mace head found with it? E. |
| 6639J | (none) | (none) | B16396A | Group of silver staves with wooden core inside A-Y. | |
| 6639A | (none) | (none) | B16397 | Group of silver staves with wooden core inside A-Y. | |
| 6639B | (none) | (none) | B16398.1 | Group of silver staves with wooden core inside A-Y. |