UN NOU CAP DE BUZDUGAN ÎN COLECȚIA MUZEULUI JUDEȚEAN MUREȘ
A SPIKED MACE HEAD IN THE COLLECTION OF MUREȘ COUNTY MUSEUM

Summary/Abstract: In the summer of 2014, in the area of Crăciunești, in the Mureș County, a bronze spiked mace head has been found in an accidental discovery. Due to the lack of an archaeological context dating the artefact must be based on a typological categorization and in accordance to relevant analogies. The mace head comprises a row of four large pyramidal knobs, placed radial in the central part of the artefact, and a row of four smaller tetrahedral knobs, placed radial on the upper part of the mace head, in between the larger spikes. Certainly the latter were doubled by an identical row below the large median spikes and most probably a lower element. Unfortunately we can only presume, based on analogies, that this lower element must have been a cone trunk or a handle socket.When it entered the inventory of the County Museum Mureș the mace head presented a high corrosion degree, so that any possible decorative element had been lost. I analyzed the artefact based on analogies, given the absence of any archaeological context, classifying it in accordance to the typologies offered by A. N. Kirpičnikov and L. Kovács. In accordance to this, I proposed as a dating the period of the thirteenth century until the middle of the fourteenth century. The wide chronological span is due to the lack of the inferior part of the mace head, along with any archaeological information.

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