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Ceremonial Chariot (replica)
UnknownLate Bronze Age, 1st quarter 1st millennium BCE
Neues Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
A large number of wagons and socket implements decorated with water bird protomes, probably used in a religious context, have been found in Eastern Germany and Western Poland. Two such cult wagons are known from Burg in the Spreewald region, which were purchased by Rudolf Virchow at the end of the 19th Century.
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Details
- Title: Ceremonial Chariot (replica)
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: Late Bronze Age, 1st quarter 1st millennium BCE
- Type: Religious object
- Medium: Bronze
- Inv. no.: II 10482
- ISIL no.: DE-MUS-019212
- External Link: Neues Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Copyright: Photo © Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Klaus Göken || Text © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz / B. Heeb
- Collection: Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
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