Clay model of four-wheeled cart
Π4743
Clay
Intact
Height: 7 cm. F249 Length: 17.5 cm. Width: 14.6 cm.
Palaikastro
Middle Bronze Age. Protopalatial period, Middle Minoan IB period.:
1900 - 1800 BC:
Gallery:
IICase:
14Exhibition thematic unit:
Middle Bronze Age - Late Prepalatial-Protopalatial period (2200-1700 BC). From small communities to townsLife in the settlements
Description
Clay model of a four-wheeled cart found on a small height east of the Minoan town of Palaikastro. It is a solid brownish-black with white details. The open cart would have been wooden, as were its wheels, which were probably solid. The groups of vertical white lines between double horizontal lines may represent the bars of the cart. It would have been drawn by draught animals, perhaps oxen. The cart model shows that there were Minoan roads suitable for such vehicles, which would mainly have been used to transport various goods and products. Such roads were probably found in and around large towns and ports such as Palaikastro.Bibliography:
Bosanquet, R.C. and R.M. Dawkins. The Unpublished Objects from the Palaikastro Excavations 1902-1906. British School at Athens Supplementrary Paper 1. London, 1923, 17-18, fig. 12. Chryssoulaki, S. "L'Urbanisme Minoen. A. Le R?seau Routien Urbain." In P. Darcque and R. Treuil (eds), L'Habitat ?g?en Pr?historique. Bulletin de Correspondance Hell?nique Suppl?ment XIX. Paris, 1990, 370-380. Tzedakis, Y., S. Chryssoulaki, S. Boutsaki and Y. Venieri. "Les Routes Minoennes: Rapport Pr?liminaires - D?fense de la Circulation ou Circulation de la D?fense." Bulletin de Correspondance Hell?nique 113 (1989): 43-75.Author:
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