Symbolic Metal Bit and Saddlebag Fastenings in a Middle Bronze Age Donkey Burial

Here we report the unprecedented discovery of the skeleton of a ritually interred donkey with a metal horse bit in association with its teeth and saddlebag fastenings on its back. This discovery in the Middle Bronze Age III sacred precinct (1700/1650-1550 BCE) at Tel Haror, Israel, presents a unique...

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Autores principales: Bar-Oz, Guy, Nahshoni, Pirhiya, Motro, Hadas, Oren, Eliezer D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590166/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23484046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058648
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description Here we report the unprecedented discovery of the skeleton of a ritually interred donkey with a metal horse bit in association with its teeth and saddlebag fastenings on its back. This discovery in the Middle Bronze Age III sacred precinct (1700/1650-1550 BCE) at Tel Haror, Israel, presents a unique combination of evidence for the early employment of equid harnessing equipment, both for chariot bridling (horse bit) and pack animals (saddlebags). The ritually deposited donkey with its unique accoutrements advances our understanding of the broad social and religious significance of equids in the Levantine Bronze Age, previously known mainly from textual and iconographical sources.
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spelling pubmed-35901662013-03-12 Symbolic Metal Bit and Saddlebag Fastenings in a Middle Bronze Age Donkey Burial Bar-Oz, Guy Nahshoni, Pirhiya Motro, Hadas Oren, Eliezer D. PLoS One Research Article Here we report the unprecedented discovery of the skeleton of a ritually interred donkey with a metal horse bit in association with its teeth and saddlebag fastenings on its back. This discovery in the Middle Bronze Age III sacred precinct (1700/1650-1550 BCE) at Tel Haror, Israel, presents a unique combination of evidence for the early employment of equid harnessing equipment, both for chariot bridling (horse bit) and pack animals (saddlebags). The ritually deposited donkey with its unique accoutrements advances our understanding of the broad social and religious significance of equids in the Levantine Bronze Age, previously known mainly from textual and iconographical sources. Public Library of Science 2013-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC3590166/ /pubmed/23484046 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058648 Text en © 2013 Bar-Oz et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_sort symbolic metal bit and saddlebag fastenings in a middle bronze age donkey burial
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