The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 24, 2025
Mace Head
c. 200 BCE–100 CE
Overall: 11.2 x 8.9 x 8.3 cm (4 7/16 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1992.348
Location: 232 Andean
Description
This handsome object was slipped onto a wooden shaft to form a mace, a club-like weapon used in war. It is unclear, however, whether the ancients used examples as well carved as this one in anything but ceremonial circumstances.- Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1992.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1993): 38–79. Mentioned: p. 76 www.jstor.org
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1992.348