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AEGEAN RANGE OF CHARIOT TYPE B
shows a practically identical
form of chariot, here again with
six spokes (Fig. 794). Some-
what later, on an eighth-century
relief from Sakje Geuze '—to
the accompaniment of 8-spoked
wheels and the Assyrian winged
solar emblem—we see a lion
hunt, where the chariot appar-
ently approaches Type C, with
a curved appendage beneath an
upper thong—the pole itself
rising from the base of the
chariot. This form is usual on
late Assyrian Monuments.
Fig. 794. Hittite Relief, showing War
Chariot, Sendjiru.
Spread of Chariot Type B to the Aegean Area.
In the Aegean area the evidences of the survival of the early Sumerian Appear-
chariot form Type B go back considerably earlier than the Ramesside 0°xypeB
epoch to which the Hittite examples belong- and some mav well be dated '"Aegean
x ° J area,
at least to the first half of the Fifteenth Century B.C.
On an amygdaloid sard bead-seal in the British Museum2—an early
find on the site of Knossos—a charioteer with a double-thonged whip is
seen driving a two-wheeled chariot the pole of which (decorated with the usual
angular appendages) rises from the summit of the car-front (Fig. 795). These
appendages cannot be regarded as cross-pieces joined to a pole below, since,
in each case, they come to a point above the line of the horses' backs.
So, too, on many of the chariot frames of the tablets where there is a
connecting rope above the pole, the festoons that hang from it either
terminate before they reach the line of the pole or run down beyond
it (see Fig. 800). Another bead-seal of similar elongated amygdaloid form
and material, from the Vapheio Tomb,3 shows a more rudely executed
' Garstang, Land of the Hittites (opp. p. 104).
- Catalogue of Gems, by H. B. Walters,
PI. I, No. 39, and p. 5 (presented by A. W.
Franks). See, too, Furtwangler, Antike Gem-
men, PI. ii, 9 (Vol. ii, p. 8); Perrot et Chipiez,
vi, p. 845, Fig, 428, 2 ; and Imhoof-Blumer
und Keller, Tier u. PflanzenUlder, PI. XVII, 2
and p. 106. Mercklin, Ver Rennwagen, 6V'C,
p. ri, cites another similar intaglio from the
Iiartmann Collection.
' 'E<l>. 'Apx-, 1SS9. pl- x. 3°- For this
form and.its L. M. I b date, see above, p. 493.
It also occurs in gold (Thisbe).
shows a practically identical
form of chariot, here again with
six spokes (Fig. 794). Some-
what later, on an eighth-century
relief from Sakje Geuze '—to
the accompaniment of 8-spoked
wheels and the Assyrian winged
solar emblem—we see a lion
hunt, where the chariot appar-
ently approaches Type C, with
a curved appendage beneath an
upper thong—the pole itself
rising from the base of the
chariot. This form is usual on
late Assyrian Monuments.
Fig. 794. Hittite Relief, showing War
Chariot, Sendjiru.
Spread of Chariot Type B to the Aegean Area.
In the Aegean area the evidences of the survival of the early Sumerian Appear-
chariot form Type B go back considerably earlier than the Ramesside 0°xypeB
epoch to which the Hittite examples belong- and some mav well be dated '"Aegean
x ° J area,
at least to the first half of the Fifteenth Century B.C.
On an amygdaloid sard bead-seal in the British Museum2—an early
find on the site of Knossos—a charioteer with a double-thonged whip is
seen driving a two-wheeled chariot the pole of which (decorated with the usual
angular appendages) rises from the summit of the car-front (Fig. 795). These
appendages cannot be regarded as cross-pieces joined to a pole below, since,
in each case, they come to a point above the line of the horses' backs.
So, too, on many of the chariot frames of the tablets where there is a
connecting rope above the pole, the festoons that hang from it either
terminate before they reach the line of the pole or run down beyond
it (see Fig. 800). Another bead-seal of similar elongated amygdaloid form
and material, from the Vapheio Tomb,3 shows a more rudely executed
' Garstang, Land of the Hittites (opp. p. 104).
- Catalogue of Gems, by H. B. Walters,
PI. I, No. 39, and p. 5 (presented by A. W.
Franks). See, too, Furtwangler, Antike Gem-
men, PI. ii, 9 (Vol. ii, p. 8); Perrot et Chipiez,
vi, p. 845, Fig, 428, 2 ; and Imhoof-Blumer
und Keller, Tier u. PflanzenUlder, PI. XVII, 2
and p. 106. Mercklin, Ver Rennwagen, 6V'C,
p. ri, cites another similar intaglio from the
Iiartmann Collection.
' 'E<l>. 'Apx-, 1SS9. pl- x. 3°- For this
form and.its L. M. I b date, see above, p. 493.
It also occurs in gold (Thisbe).