Strata Answers
What Is It?
D. (a horse blinder)
Dating to the eighth century B.C.E., this ivory horse blinder, or blinker, from ancient Nimrud would have been attached (as part of a pair) to a horse’s bridle, thus preventing the horse from seeing to its side and getting distracted or spooked in crowded areas.
How Many?
2,000
Source: Graham Davies, “Some Uses of Writing in Ancient Israel in the Light of Recently Published Inscriptions,” in Piotr Bienkowski, Christopher Mee and Elizabeth Slater, Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society, Papers in Honour of Alan R. Millard (London: T and T Clark, 2005), p. 155.
MLA Citation
“Strata Answers,” Biblical Archaeology Review 32.2 (2006): 72.