This is a cross-shaped top of the mace. Its surface is intensively ground and polished. Such maces could be used both as melee shock weapons and as cult objects (symbols of power).
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Title: Top of the Mace
Creator: Unknown
Date Created: 4100 - 3600 ВСЕ
Location Created: Unknown
Physical Dimensions: h 38, w 73 mm
Type: Objects of worship
Rights: National Museum of the History of Ukraine
Medium: Porphyrite, grinding, drilling
Place found: Kyiv Region, Ukraine
Period: Eneolithic
Culture: Cucuteni–Trypillia
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