TAA i.3.8.42

                                        A (1)

The wheel/<They> consist of the/<a> nave, the central portion or hub, 
through which the axle passes, the spokes, or radial 
bars, fitted onto the nave and reaching to the peripheral 
rim, the felloe. Fragments of a chariot wheel 
that were found in the tomb of Amenhotep III <?II> show 
an even more elaborate structure than the complete 
wheels found/<discovered> in this tomb. Here, their general 
structure is as follows:- A nave (A) <was> made of one 
piece of ... wood, having six concave beds, or grooves, 
<with radial divisions,> on its outer ex circumference devised to receive the 
corresponding radial bars, and on either side a circular/<a> 
projecting rein rebated rein rebated projecting reins
rebated circular projections to receive <a> corresponding 
<cylindrical> flanges (B). The two cylindrical flanges <(B)> have an 
important constructive purpose, for they serve to keep 
the wheel upright during any lateral movement. 
As a bearing to receive friction from the axle, the 
interior of the nave and flanges was lined with 
leather. The six radial bars (C), were made up 
of six separate v-shaped sections of straight-grained
... wood, pared and bent to the required shape, 
so that when they were put together they formed 
six complete spokes which fitted on to the x[?]/<g>rooved