Cart and Horses
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Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, Estados Unidos
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About the sculpture
This small group depicts two draft animals, perhaps horses, pulling a simple, two-wheeled vehicle. The animals (4.5 and 4.8 cm long, both c. 2.7 cm high) are highly stylized and consist of bean-shaped heads; pointed, triangular ears; long, cylindrical bodies; and rod-like legs and tails. On one animal, a rough sprue connects the back right leg to the torso. They are joined to each other by a U-shaped yoke. The tongue of the vehicle, a long cylindrical rod, rests on top of the yoke. The tongue connects perpendicularly to an axle to which the two wheels are attached. Each wheel has a prominent hemispherical boss on its exterior.
Model carts with draft animals have some variation: some have solid wheels like the Harvard example, while others have open spoked-wheels or more elaborate carts (1).
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1. Compare the group in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, inv. no. 1970.510; A Glimpse into the Past: The Joseph Ternbach Collection, exh. cat., Israel Museum (Jerusalem, 1981) 85, no. 54; and H. Mahboubian, Art of Ancient Iran: Copper and Bronze (London, 1997) 118, no. 96.
Lisa M. Anderson
Harvard Art Museums
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- 1992.256.104
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