Model of a chariot wheel

Model of a chariot wheel (AN1938.97)

© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (image)

Details

Title

Model of a chariot wheel
Associated place

Tell Brak (place of excavation)
Date

Middle Bronze Age I (Near East) (2100 - 2000 BC)
Material and technique

terracotta
Object type

model;

wheel
Dimensions

5.5 cm (diameter)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Allocated by the Trustees of the British Museum and the British School of Archaeology in Iraq, 1938.
Museum location

not on display
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1938.97

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Catalogue text

Handmodelled; baked; buff fabric; low hubs; chipped perimeter.

In: Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005)

Further reading

Moorey, P. R. S., Ancient Near Eastern Terracottas (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), 299, p.180, illus. p.180

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