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Bronze strap crossing. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul) -
Bronze strap crossing. Top view. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Bronze strap crossing
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 51
- Date
- Second quarter to middle of the 6th century BC, Lydian
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6429
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6429
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M85.009
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Horsetrapping
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 85.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 84.1 Locus 34
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E144.5 - E150 / S68.9 - S69.3
- Description
- Round bronze object consisting of slightly tapering cylinder pierced at four quadrants and at bottom, crowned by cloverleaf-like disk, with its notches directly over the holes. Complete; corroded; lump of iron corroded to interior. Height 0.011, diameter of cylinder 0.018 m, diameter of cloverleaf-like disk 0.019 m, diameter of holes 0.007 m.
- Comments
- From a Lydian house destroyed in the mid-sixth century (Area 1), found in a tight cluster with cosmetics containers, jewelry, and other finds (Cahill, “City of Sardis”). Another, simpler strap crossing was found in an adjacent house, together with parts of an iron bit, suggesting that the ownership of horses was more widespread than one might expect.
- See Also
- Greenewalt, “Horsemanship”.
- Bibliography
- Cahill in Greenewalt et al. 1988, 69.
- Author
- CHG