Model of a wheel with inscription

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Inventory number

ΕΑΜ Χ 6914

Category

Bronzes

Period

Classical Period

Date

480-470 BC

Dimensions

Diameter: 0.085 m

Material

Bronze

Location

First Floor Case 19, Νο 11

Description
Bibliography

Intact dedication in the shape of a four-spoked wheel. Around the outer edge an inscription rendered with dots states: ΠΙΘΕΚΟΣ ⋮ ΑΝΕΘΕΚΕΝ, meaning “It was dedicated by Pithekos”.

The wheel is considered a symbol of luck and its unpredictable turns; of instability and the ever changing nature of human life; of seemingly random twists that lead from prosperity to destruction and vice versa.

De Ridder, A., Bronzes Trouvés sur l' Acropole d'Athènes, Paris, 1896, σελ. 132, αρ. κατ. 405
Lolling, H, Κατάλογος του εν Αθήναις Επιγραφικού Μουσείου, Αθήνα, 1899, σελ. 11, αρ. κατ. XXXV
Payne, H., Perachora, the sanctuaries of Hera Akraia and Limenia; excavations of the British school of archaeology at Athens, 1930-1933, Oxford, 1940, σελ. 176, εικ. 78.19
Filow, B.D., Die Archaische Nekropole von Trebenischte am Ochrida See, Berlin, 1972, σελ. 87 υποσημ. 2
Inscriptiones Graecae Ι3 , αρ. κατ. 548