288, Lot: 710. Estimate $400. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Bronze horse bits. Achaemenid, circa 550-400 BC. Each with two loops, one stippled, and holes for attachment. One terminating in horse’s hoof, the other in a knob. Lengths: 14.1cm and 16.8cm. See Oscar White Muscarella, Bronze and iron: Ancient Near Eastern artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1988), p. 213, no. 324 for similar pieces. Bluish-green patinas under some earthen encrustation. One bit broken at tip, otherwise intact.