Sledge runner
This is the runner from a sledge which was discovered at the ancient Egyptian stone quarry of Tura in Egypt. The sledge would have been used to move the blocks of stone.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 85/1999/2
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Material
- wood
- Common Name
- sledge runner
- Simple Name
- runner
- Period Classification
- Old Kingdom (Dynasties 4-8) - 2613-2160 BC
