toy
- Museum number
- 123764
- Description
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Fired clay toy in the form of an animal with two projections made to carry axles so that the whole object may be drawn along on wheels; a pierced lug for string at front; 4 wheels.
- Dimensions
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Height: 15.87 centimetres (on wheels)
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Length: 20.32 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This belongs to a type of toy normally presumably made of wood but here made as a potter's sideline. They date between the Akkadian and Middle Assyrian periods in Mesopotamia. An Akkadian example from Tell Asmar is illustrated on p. 505 of the article "Mesopotamian finds reveal the date of the Indus culture: links between Iraq and India in the third millennium B.C.", ILN, 1 October 1932, p. 505. A Middle Assyrian example was excavated by M. Roaf at Tell Mohammed 'Arab.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1997 Jul-31 Dec, BM exhibition: "Pottery in the Making", Museum of Mankind.
- Condition
- Good; some or all of the wheels do not belong.
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 123764
- Registration number
- 1930,1213.330
- Additional IDs
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Excavation/small finds number: U.14461 (excavation number,?)
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Excavation/small finds number: U.14948 (excavation number,?)