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Lot 47TP

An Elamite bronze wheel

28 November 2017, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An Elamite bronze wheel
Circa late 2nd Millennium B.C.
Each hollow rim element of u-shaped cross-section for application over a wooden wheel, each section with three pairs of inward-facing pierced and riveted double tabs, some rivets now missing, each rim section 45cm long max.

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Provenance:
Acquired in Germany in the late 1970s, and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 28 October 2009, lot 242.

A similar wheel is at the National Museum of Iran in Tehran, and was excavated from Choqa Zanbil, an ancient Elamite site in Khuzestan province of Iran.

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