Horse Gear
Ornament
69-21-187
From: Iran | Amlash
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
Object Number | 69-21-187 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Iran | Amlash |
Date Made | 1000-700 BCE |
Section | Near Eastern |
Materials | Bronze |
Description | Dangle ornament for horse consisting of one suspenion bar with nine perforations, one wire loop with spherical wite ornament suspended from it by suspension loop. This sphere made of eight vertical wires with one horizontal one around the center. At this point seven small loops are attached (number 8 missing). From these are suspended 1 large loop from which dangles either a horned deer (3 of these) with loop feet with cu/br bells suspended from them with iron clappers or a bird with no feet, flat, solid tail with one perforation through tail and one through each side of the body with cu/br bell with iron clapper suspended from it (one of these). Also one slightly larger. |
Credit Line | The Hasanlu Project (Miscellaneous Sites); Robert H. Dyson Jr., 1969 |
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