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An Anatolian bronze and sheet silver model of a wagon with oxen image 1
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An Anatolian bronze and sheet silver model of a wagon with oxen

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An Anatolian bronze and sheet silver model of a wagon with oxen
Circa late 3rd-early 2nd Millennium B.C.
The chariot with large flat disc wheels, the rectangular base of the carriage with side rails with sheet silver panels attached, inclining towards the front, a long shaft connected to the yokes of the two oxen, their bronze bodies applied with sheet silver, the heads of inverted triangular form, each with exaggerated slender curved horns, 56cm long

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Provenance:
with Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private collection, USA, acquired from the above in April 1989.

The above example resembles an Anatolian wagon in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 66.15, see O. Muscarella, Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, p. 414-415, no. 568. Both are part of a group of model wagons, dating from the mid-late 3rd Millennium B.C., including examples in Dallas Museum of Art, acc. no. 1972.38.A-D, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Their precise purpose is unproven: they may have been tomb deposits, toys or intended as vehicles for deities. When buried with their owners, they may have served as substitutes for full-sized vehicles, for use in the next life.

A similar wagon with sheet covered sides inclining towards the front, also with an elongated shaft, was discovered in 1999 near Şanlıurfa, Southeastern Anatolia (see F. Kulakoğlu, 'Recently Discovered Bronze Wagon Models from Şanlıurfa, Southeastern Anatolia', Anatolia, vol. 24, 2003, pp. 63-77).

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