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Terracotta Models as Evidence for Vehicles with Tilts in the Ancient Near East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

M. A. Littauer  and
J. H. Crouwel
M. A. Littauer
Affiliation:
Hillside Farm, Box 2, Syosset, Long Island, New York 11791; Archaeologisch-Historisch Instituut, Weesperzijde 33, Amsterdam
J. H. Crouwel
Affiliation:
Hillside Farm, Box 2, Syosset, Long Island, New York 11791; Archaeologisch-Historisch Instituut, Weesperzijde 33, Amsterdam
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In his important study of early wheeled vehicles from the Caucasus region, S. Piggott briefly considered two terracotta models of wagons with arched tilts from the Near East (Piggott 1968, 273). Following Speiser (1934), he argued that the actual wagons represented by these models had been introduced into the Near East from the Caucasus by the later 3rd millennium B.C. The present article aims at a more comprehensive review of the Near-Eastern evidence. It will be almost exclusively concerned with terracotta models of both four-wheeled wagons and two-wheeled carts, because these constitute practically all the documentation we have of vehicles with tilts. This material undoubtedly will be incomplete, since there must be more examples among the many models that have not been published, or published only inadequately. A full description will be possible only in the one case where we have personally examined the model (wagon A1).

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 40 , December 1974 , pp. 20 - 36
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1974

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