Bird Bit - Luristan, Iran - Iron Age I Or Ii, Ixth - VIIth Centuries Bc

Bird Bit
Luristan, Iran
Iron Age I or II, 9th-7th centuries BC 
Bronze 
H. 5; psalia length: 11 cm 
 
This tripartite bronze bit with a green-brown patina is composed of two psalia with two pairs of bird protuberances - probably eagles - facing each other. Each has a ring around the neck to allow the reins of the mount's harness to be passed through. A crossbar, called the barrel, with inverted hemmed ends, is rigid and square in cross-section.
 
Provenance : 
Former private collection acquired in the 1960s, Paris.
 
Bibliography: 
- A similar example is kept at the Musée du Louvre under the number AO 20511.
- A similar psalia is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under reference 56.42.2.
 
Text and photos © FCP CORIDON
 
Ref : 4313MOR with BIRDS
Luristan, Iran
Iron Age I or II, 9th-7th centuries BC 
Bronze 
H. 5; psalia length: 11 cm 

This tripartite bronze bit with a green-brown patina is composed of two psalia with two pairs of bird protuberances - probably eagles - facing each other. Each has a ring around the neck to allow the reins of the mount's harness to be passed through. A crossbar, called the barrel, with inverted hemmed ends, is rigid and square in cross-section.

Provenance : 
Former private collection acquired in the 1960s, Paris.

Bibliography: 
- A similar example is in the Musée du Louvre under number AO 20511.
- A similar psalia is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under reference 56.42.2.

Text and photos © FCP CORIDON

Ref : 4313