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HoB 735: Bridle ornament. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Bridle ornament
- Date
- Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M62.008
- Material
- Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Horsetrapping
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - South of Building C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W25 / S90 to *99.8
- Findspot
- W20-25 / S90 To *99.80, higher in fill ⁓ floors south of Building C
- Description
- Copper alloy. Nomadic style bronze bridle ornament. Hollow, cube-shaped base with a wide hole (lateral opening) on each side; upper part of the base is solid and beak-shaped, stylized in a bird’s beak: four horizontally curving flutes running parallel with the beak-shaped part on both sides.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.035, W. 0.043, Base 0.017 × 0.013, Diam. of lateral opening 0.01; 0.008; 0.006; 0.009.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Sardis M8, cat. no. 86; Ivantchik 2001a, p. 82 and fig. 34.5.
- Author
- GGD