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Figurine of a Chariot 1200 BC - 1050 BC

Part of the Prof. Dr. Gunther Marschall Collection, Hamburg, 1973-1997. Purchased by Prof. Dr Gunther Marschall, Hamburg, from Kunsthaus am Museum, Carola van Ham, Koln, Germany, Auction 57, Lot 22, 23 November 1973.
FIGURINE
PAINTING, MODELING
TERRACOTTA
Dimensions 100 x 96 x 61 mm
18.003
A Mycenaean terracotta figurine of a highly simplified chariot in a cream/pink fabric with frequent dark inclusions. The two animals are joined at the hip and each only has a single front leg and no body. They may be horses, but other draught animals are known, including both equids and bovids. On the outside of each figure is a loop that may represent terrets or terminals of the yoke. On the back of the head of the right figure is a circular feature that may be the remains of an attached reign or goad, now missing. There is no similar feature on the left figure. The animals are decorated with stripes of a dark brown slip. From the join between the two animals projects a platform behind the figures that terminates in a roughly semi-circular shape. This platform slopes away from the waists of the figures and is decorated with the same dark brown slip. Decoration consists of a circle with a central dot situated between the two figures at the front of the platform, perhaps representing the yoke-peg or lashings, and a series of zigzag lines coming from the back of each figure to the end of the platform, perhaps representing reigns. The right figure has three such zigzag lines, while the left figure has four. The platform is complete and shows no sign of breaks of missing pieces, suggesting that the chariot itself, and any rider, was never attached to the figurine. The figurine is stylistically very similar to other simplified Mycenaean terracotta chariot figures that feature charioteers drawn by animals with single front and hind legs, however, this type is a particularly abbreviated form. The left leg is completely reconstructed and repainted and the left figure has been reattached at the waist. The loop on the right figure is cracked at the base.
Purchased from Charles Ede Ltd, London, with funds from the Queensland Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of their founding, 2018.


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