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  • A Bronze Cult-Wagon from Lezoux (Puy-de-Dôme) in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

  • Nicholas Freidin
  • Journal:
    The Antiquaries Journal / Volume 60 / Issue 2 / September 1980
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 November 2011, pp. 320-327
    Print publication:
    September 1980

  • The three bronze fragments from Lezoux belong to a particular type of cult-wagon manufactured in central Italy in the seventh century B.C. Their presence in Lower Auvergne, together with other largely contemporary Italo-Etruscan bronzes, suggest that they are a result of a commercial exchange in return for tin ores. Such trade links between France and central and northern Italy were close and continuous in the centuries preceding the foundation of Massalia by the Phocaeans in c. 600 B.C. The cult-wagon from Lezoux is a particular central Italian creation drawing on a variety of Urnfield decorative techniques and symbolic motifs from eastern and central Europe. Whether or not the wagon was used at its ultimate destination for the cult practices intended by its creators remains open to debate.