Model of a cart

Model of a cart

Description:

The cart has upright sides; its wheels are missing. It has a flaring tubular socket for a pole, and pierced flanges for attachment of the axle.


H. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm)

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

599 - 500 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1895. The Terracottas and Pottery of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in Halls 4 and 15. no. 699, p. 53, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 2115, p. 346, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Klein, Anita Elizabeth. 1932. Child Life in Greek Art. p. 9, n. 83, New York: Columbia University Press.Crouwel, Joost H. 1985. "Carts in Iron Age Cyprus." Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus (RDAC), : no. TM35, pp. 204, 212, 218, pl. XXXIII.8.Karageorghis, Vassos. 1996. "The Cypro-archaic period monsters, animals and miscellanea." The Coroplastic Art of Ancient Cyprus, Vol. 6. no. U.c.25, p. 71, pl. XXXIX.4, Nicosia: Foundation Anastasios G. Leventis.Karageorghis, Vassos, Gloria Merker, and Joan R. Mertens. 2016. The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art : Terracottas. no. 90, pp. 55, 255, Online Publication, [CD-Rom 2004], New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.1796