Discoid mace head
Naqada I–IIa 3850–3300 B.C.
FindspotMesaid, Egypt
Medium/TechniquePorphyry
DimensionsLegacy dimension: .087 D.
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number13.3832
On View
Not on viewClassificationsWarfare, hunting, fishing
Collections
ProvenanceFrom Mesaid tomb 744 [M/744]. 1913: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt.
Naqada I–II, 3850–3300 B.C.
Naqada I–II, 3850–3300 B.C.
270 B.C.–A.D. 320
5th millennium B.C.
5000–4000 B.C.
5000–4000 B.C.
3850–3650 B.C.
3700–3100 B.C.
Merimda, 4500–3800 B.C.
pre-Badarian, Merimda Culture, 5th millennium B.C.
270 B.C.–400 A.D.
