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# Mace

The mace (gurz) made of watered steel has very finely inlaid gold decoration and was made somewhere in the northern Indian subcontinent in the late 17th or early 18th century. One of the flanges has a number in dotted Arabic numerals which is presumably an armoury mark.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1650–1800 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.3526-is](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.3526-is) · Pramāṇa
