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EGYPTIAN CHARIOT TYPE
we notice the intrusion on that side of a special Syro-Egyptian adaptatiri
of the pole, more or less intermediate between Types A and B of the
present classification, in which it curves upwards from the base and is linked
to the chariot-front by a short thong (Fig. 801.1) It seems possible, indeed
that the addition of the rounded annexe to the square ' box'' of the earlier
Fig.
01. Egyptian Chariot of Rameses IPs
Time.
Fig. 802. Rutenu Chariot of Egyptian
Form, but with Wheels four-spoked.
Intrusion
of a Syro-
Egyptian
form in
Cyprus.
Avdu sig-
net ring:
chariot of
C type
drawn by
wild-
goats.
Minoan form may have been suggested by the elegant curve of the light
Egyptian chariots (Fig. 801) shared by those of their Syrian neighbours,
and from which came also the curved back of the Minoan type. A typical
specimen of a Rutenu chariot of Ramesside date is given in Fig. 802, which
is indistinguishable from the Egyptian.2
The plumed head-stalls of some of the Cypro-Minoan chariot horses
and details of the harness also certainly come from the same Egyptian side
as the posterior bows of the chariots.
Curiously enough the most detailed Cretan presentation of the ' dual
form of chariot and its trappings shows it drawn by a pair of long-horned
Cretan wild-goats in place of horses (Fig. 803). This.version appears on an
intaglio on a fine sardonyx ring cut out of a solid piece of agate, from a rock
tomb at Avdu,3 in a glen situated in the rugged upland region that lies East
1 From Wilkinson, Anc. Egyptians, i, p. 229,
Fig. 61 (Thebes).
- lb., p. 30, Fig. 63.
3 The spot where the rock-tomb was found
locally known as Vra 2~v/\upta or ' the
whom I was later able to obtain it by exchange.
A bad impression exists in the Candia Museum
(Xanthudides, 'E<f>. 'ApX; 192/. P- lS4''
Mercklin, who refers to this, found the details
unintelligible, but his description (based on
of
Grottoes'. For this discovery, see, too, Ring of photograph of a cast of the bad impression
Nestor, &c, p. 3M-97- The ring itself passed the intaglio as 'von unerfreulich salopp
into the hands of an Athens dealer and was Zeichnung' gives a very infelicitous iue
purchased by an American Collector, from its strong, pure style.
we notice the intrusion on that side of a special Syro-Egyptian adaptatiri
of the pole, more or less intermediate between Types A and B of the
present classification, in which it curves upwards from the base and is linked
to the chariot-front by a short thong (Fig. 801.1) It seems possible, indeed
that the addition of the rounded annexe to the square ' box'' of the earlier
Fig.
01. Egyptian Chariot of Rameses IPs
Time.
Fig. 802. Rutenu Chariot of Egyptian
Form, but with Wheels four-spoked.
Intrusion
of a Syro-
Egyptian
form in
Cyprus.
Avdu sig-
net ring:
chariot of
C type
drawn by
wild-
goats.
Minoan form may have been suggested by the elegant curve of the light
Egyptian chariots (Fig. 801) shared by those of their Syrian neighbours,
and from which came also the curved back of the Minoan type. A typical
specimen of a Rutenu chariot of Ramesside date is given in Fig. 802, which
is indistinguishable from the Egyptian.2
The plumed head-stalls of some of the Cypro-Minoan chariot horses
and details of the harness also certainly come from the same Egyptian side
as the posterior bows of the chariots.
Curiously enough the most detailed Cretan presentation of the ' dual
form of chariot and its trappings shows it drawn by a pair of long-horned
Cretan wild-goats in place of horses (Fig. 803). This.version appears on an
intaglio on a fine sardonyx ring cut out of a solid piece of agate, from a rock
tomb at Avdu,3 in a glen situated in the rugged upland region that lies East
1 From Wilkinson, Anc. Egyptians, i, p. 229,
Fig. 61 (Thebes).
- lb., p. 30, Fig. 63.
3 The spot where the rock-tomb was found
locally known as Vra 2~v/\upta or ' the
whom I was later able to obtain it by exchange.
A bad impression exists in the Candia Museum
(Xanthudides, 'E<f>. 'ApX; 192/. P- lS4''
Mercklin, who refers to this, found the details
unintelligible, but his description (based on
of
Grottoes'. For this discovery, see, too, Ring of photograph of a cast of the bad impression
Nestor, &c, p. 3M-97- The ring itself passed the intaglio as 'von unerfreulich salopp
into the hands of an Athens dealer and was Zeichnung' gives a very infelicitous iue
purchased by an American Collector, from its strong, pure style.