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    HoB 736: Unfinished bronze ibex bridle or harness ornament. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Unfinished bronze ibex bridle or harness ornament

Report 8: Ordinary Lydians at Home: The Lydian Trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis (2021) Cat. HoB 736
Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 5350
Museum Inventory No.
5350
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
M62.057
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 - S95 *99.8
Findspot
W20-25 / S90-95 *99.80
Description
Tin bronze bridle or harness ornament. Recumbent ibex in relief, facing to right; face turned backwards; long horn curves up from the forehead down to the neck. Back: two loop attachments. Unfinished, solid cast.
Dimensions
H. 0.042, H. of loop 0.015, L. 0.050, W. of loop 0.018, Diam. of loop 0.008, Th. 0.009.
Comments
See Also
See also: LATW Cat. 49
Bibliography
Hanfmann, "Sardis 1962," p. 11, fig. 9; Sardis M8, cat. no. 87; LATW, p. 447, no. 49.
Author
GGD

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