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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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