Salve,
I have been playing with some pen drawings of the horse bits of the Achaemenid and Sassanian Persia.
First sketch is a rather frivolous interpretation, the historic bit is an actual find from Greece, evidenced in the Alexander mosaic ( mossaic ). In this drawing of a horse bit from the Achaemenid period (a sample of the actual Apadana Persepolis horse bridle I gave on this blog here http://dariocaballeros.blogspot.com/2010/01/annus-novus.html ), the two long cheek pieces end with a calf head, like in the Vouni treasure, Cyprus. achemenet Vouni_Treasure
Second sketch (titled sketch I) is of a Sassanian cub-bit ( shown in this example of Sassanian metal plate https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7v4GX8hMMl3zb_1LG5-wA8VJcfMghbPAzG0QXzJ5FKb9oRxcbfKzjNvzlkBsAbCX_dYFnN4tbT_BO07FTapuheqB8sizhWS0oIkukRXjQsE8YYS_4A1wCLxNznLYijgWNYY-mwUhe4rSP/s1600-h/persian+plate+inter.jpeg ) and two horse heads with a device, that had been used along with a snaffle-bit, in a from of a metal cavesson-like device attached to the headstall, going over the nose and under the chin.
Finally the above amazing Achaemenid rhyton ( wikipedia Rhyton ) from the 'Fortress of Blood' aka Arin Berd (Erebuni Erebuni_Fortress ) in Armenia (Urartu), its picture found at wikimedia Achaemenid_Goblet_Erebuni
shall become my next 'serious' reconstruction attempt, along with another Erebuni rhyton with a horse Achaemenid Goblet02 , and also some terracotta horse-shaped vessels from Achaemenid Village (Susa) dated to the V century BCE/BC.
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