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Period: Bronze Age: Early Bronze Age IV Dimensions: L: 12cm. W:
8.3cm. Th: 2.3cm. Description: handmodelled; baked; greenish-
buff fabric; each side of the front is decorated in low relief
with the front and rear legs of an animal with claws; each side
of the chariot front is conceived as the back of an animal with
the head and tail now missing. The rein-loops on the top edge
are also now lost, though it is clear where they have been
broken away. It is possible that the animals faced downwards,
occupying the broken areas at the front, on either side of the
hole for the chariot pole, where they may have provided
zoomorphic support for the front axle.