Horse Gear

Ornament

69-21-187

From: Iran | Amlash

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

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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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