SIMON, Christina, 2014. Römisches Zaumzeug aus Pompeji, Herculaneum und Stabiae. Metallzäume, Trensen und Kandaren. Oxford : Archaeopress. Archaeopress Roman Archaeology, 1. ISBN 9781784910341. £ 36.
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regions possess so many and mainly complete Roman bridles as do the
Vesuvian sites. Singular find conditions permit both comprehensive
antiquarian-historian analyses of their production, functionality, and
everyday use and new approaches to their typology and chronology. The
103 catalogued specimens belong to four types of bronze headstalls,
namely metallic noseband, bitless metal bridle (« hackamore »),
multipartite metallic bridle (« metallic halter »), and muzzle as well
as two types of bits, namely snaffle bit with circular cheekpieces and
curb bit. All of them occurred in more or less numerous variants of
local or provincial origin. Special attention is paid to the
reconstruction of application methods and combinations of types as well
as the replica of a snaffle bit with circular cheekpieces. Bitless metal
bridles followed Greek models, multipartite metallic bridles
Celtiberian ones and, in combination with Thracian or Italian curb bits,
formed typical military bridles. All Campanian finds came from civilian
contexts such as luxury villae, villae rusticae, urban houses, and
workshops. Thanks to find circumstances they can be attributed to
draught animals, beasts of burden or mounts (horse, donkey, mule) which
also showed up in stables and skeletal remains.
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