Mace

Object Number:	B14936
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Provenience:	Iraq Ur
Archaeology Area:	TTB 19
Section:	Near Eastern
Materials:	Alabaster
Technique:	Inscribed
Height:	9.5 cm
Credit Line:	British Museum/University Museum Expedition to Ur, Iraq, 1923
Other Number:	U.221 - Field No SF

Description

Inscribed-dedication by a king, name broken, who "smashed the head of Warka and Ur".-[Rimush of Kish]

CBS Register: fragment of aragonite mace with inscription. "Rimush of Akkad"

Bibliography:

[Book] Woolley, Charles L. Ur Excavations: The building of the Third Dynasty.. Published for the Trustees of the Two Museums by the Oxford University Press. Vol. VI.

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