Mace Item Number: Sf509 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
A thick disc with a deeply serrated edge and ten triangular openings surrounding the central hole. One side two bands of an incised zig-zag design, and the reverse has two incised lines. The incised designs are found near the outer edge and at the centre. Head of mace only.
Narrative
Vicus style, Early Intermediate Period, 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E. The mace head would have had a wooden shaft inserted in the central hole. Numerous Moche and Vicus ceramics depict figures with maces and other arms and armour. Maces of this type have been recorded from Vicus (Disselhoff). Cast objects from Vicus are sometimes copper or gilt copper (Jones; Lechtman).
Iconographic Meaning
Ring maces appear in depictions of men with arms and armour. They also appear as repeated devices in building roofs above important personages in Moche ceramics.
Item History
What
- Name
- Mace
- Identification Number
- Sf509
- Type of Item
- mace
- Material
- copper metal and gold metal ?
- Manufacturing Technique
- cast and gilded
- Overall
- height 1.0 cm, diameter 9.8 cm
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- Peru
When
- Creation Date
- between 201 BCE and 300
- Collection Date
- between 1949 and 1966
- Ownership Date
- before May 4, 1981
- Acquisition Date
- on May 4, 1981
Other
- Item Classes
- metalwork
- Condition
- poor
- Accession Number
- 0711/0012