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British Museum discovers vase is actually a mace
mercredi 9 janvier 2019, 18:09 , par BoingBoing
Archaeologists make mistakes. I recently ran across this crown-that-was-actually-a-bucket story as well.
The Art Newspaper: In a bit of serendipity, the curators realised during research for the show that an object they had long assumed was a vase had actually been displayed upside down. They now understand that it is actually the head of a fired-clay mace, or heavy club, made for King Gishakidu of Umma. After comparing the object with a similar one at Yale University, “we realised how daft we’d been”, says Irving Finkel, a co-curator of the show. Now displayed right-side up, the mace head is topped by a painted representation of a net that was used to immobilise enemies for execution.
https://boingboing.net/2019/01/09/british-museum-discovers-vase.html
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