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title: Bronze Horse Bit with Winged Goats from Western Iran
author: National Museum of Iran
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18938/bronze-horse-bit-with-winged-goats-from-western-ir/
format: machine-readable-alternate
updated: 2024-05-15
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# Bronze Horse Bit with Winged Goats from Western Iran

_Authored by National Museum of Iran_

## Image File

[![Bronze Horse Bit with Winged Goats from Western Iran](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/18938.jpg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/18938.jpg)

## Image Caption

Luristan [Bronze](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/bronze/) artefact from [Iron Age](https://www.worldhistory.org/disambiguation/Iron_Age/) II or III, c. 950-650 BCE.

National Museum of Iran, Tehran.

Acc. no. 3915, Photograph by Nima Fakourzadeh (Baloot Noghrei)

In [archaeology](https://www.worldhistory.org/Archaeology/), the cast objects with bronze decorations obtained from the Iron Age [burial](https://www.worldhistory.org/burial/) sites of Luristan province in western Iran are typologically recognised as the Luristan Bronze. Luristan became a centre of a remarkable change in the bronze industry from the Mesopotamian into the [Scythian](https://www.worldhistory.org/Scythians/) style shortly after 1000 BCE. The objects became portable and practical in compliance with the necessities of a nomadic lifestyle – eating and drinking vessels, weapons, finials (presumably to put up tents), and horse fittings. They also tended to be shaped in openwork formats and adorned with appealing and meaningful patterns of the so-called 'animal art'. The realistic or stylised representations of dogs, deer, goats, eagles, and other animals unearthed in Luristan may safely be counted as the regional, bronze precursors of the goldworks of [Scythian art](https://www.worldhistory.org/Scythian_Art/) a few centuries later. Moreover, they add to our picture of the Iranian settlers of the region from Central Asia, who might have been part of the ancestry of the current Lurs in Iran.

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## External Links

- [National Museum of Iran – Official Site For National Museum Of Iran](https://irannationalmuseum.ir/en/)

## Cite This Work

### APA
Iran, N. M. o. (2024, May 15). Bronze Horse Bit with Winged Goats from Western Iran. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18938/bronze-horse-bit-with-winged-goats-from-western-ir/>
### Chicago
Iran, National Museum of. "Bronze Horse Bit with Winged Goats from Western Iran." *World History Encyclopedia*, May 15, 2024. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18938/bronze-horse-bit-with-winged-goats-from-western-ir/>.
### MLA
Iran, National Museum of. "Bronze Horse Bit with Winged Goats from Western Iran." *World History Encyclopedia*, 15 May 2024, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/18938/bronze-horse-bit-with-winged-goats-from-western-ir/>.

## License & Copyright

Original image by **National Museum of Iran**. Submitted by [Nathalie Choubineh](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/nathalie.choubineh/ "User Page: Nathalie Choubineh"), published on 15 May 2024. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Copyright](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright). You cannot use, copy, distribute, or modify this item without explicit permission from the author. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.