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Model of an oxcart
Near Eastern, Anatolian or Levantine
Early to Middle Bronze Age
2600–2300 B.C.
Object Place: Anatolia, Turkey
Medium/Technique
Cast copper
Dimensions
Length: of cart with oxen .183 m., H. .105 m.
Credit Line
Egyptian Curator's Fund
Accession Number62.679
CollectionsAncient Egypt, Nubia and the Near East
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionFour-wheeled cart with two oxen accompanied by two warriors. Wheeled vehicles were in use all across the Near East by the mid-third Millennium B.C., as is revealed by models such as this one.
Provenance1962, sold by J. J. Klejman (dealer; b. 1906 - d. 1995), New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 19, 1962)