• r8-hob-735-10
    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