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Actual mace head, Room 56, Display Case 11, British Museum
English: Macehead dedicated to Shamash by Shar-Kali-Sharri king of Akkad. British Museum 1883,0118.700 (inscription).

Original caption:

"Macehead dedicated to Shamash, the Sun-God, by Shar-Gani-sharri, king of Agade, Brit. Mus. No. 91146, by Messrs. Mansell & Co."

(King 1910 identifies "Shar-Gani" with Sargon of Akkad)

Douglas Frayne, Sargonic and Gutian Periods, 2334-2113 BC, Issue 2 of RIM the Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia Series, University of Toronto Press, 1993.
Date after 1883
date QS:P,+1883-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1883-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
, before 1910
Source Leonard William King, A History of Sumer and Akkad (1910), facing p. 218
Author Mansell & Co

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