Jeremiah 51:20

battle axe mg. maul, a war-club, mace. "The Assyrian mace was a short thin weapon, and must either have been made of a very tough wood, or and this is more probable of metal. It had an ornamented head, which was sometimes very beautifully modelled, and generally a strap or string at the lower end, by which it could be grasped with greater firmness." (Rawlinson's Anc. Mon. I. p. 458.) For this figure, as applied to Babylon, cp. Jeremiah 50:23.