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On 1/3/07, Gail <gailh@...> wrote:
I don't know who cataloged this bit, at the museum....but its your basic spade bit...and the only delicate thing about it, is the decorations on it....this is a warhorse bit. What they describe as a "tongue" is the spade, that presses into the roof of the horses mouth. Add the curb chain (which has probably been lost) and you can break a jaw without much strain on the rider.galen-----Original Message-----
From: GleannAbhannEquestrian@yahoogroups.com [mailto: GleannAbhannEquestrian@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Erin Clardy
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 9:22 PM
To: gleannabhannequestrian@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [GleannAbhannEquestrian] Horse Bit, 600-800 Visigothic or Byzantinehttp://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/ho/06/eusi/hod_47.100.24.htm
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Erin/ Naqid/ Elf
On the morning they left
we said goodbye
filled with sadness
for the absence to come.
Inside the palanquins
on the camels' backs
I saw their faces beautiful as moons
behind veils of golden cloth.
Beneath the veils
tears crept like scorpions
over the fragrant roses
of their cheeks.
These scorpions do not harm
the cheek they mark.
They save their sting
for the heart of the sorrowful lover.
Ibn Jakh (11th century)
(translated by Emilio Garcia Gomez & Cola
)
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Erin/ Naqid/ Elf
On the morning they left
we said goodbye
filled with sadness
for the absence to come.
Inside the palanquins
on the camels' backs
I saw their faces beautiful as moons
behind veils of golden cloth.
Beneath the veils
tears crept like scorpions
over the fragrant roses
of their cheeks.
These scorpions do not harm
the cheek they mark.
They save their sting
for the heart of the sorrowful lover.
Ibn Jakh (11th century)
(translated by Emilio Garcia Gomez & Cola
)
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