Phalera (harness)

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Greek and Indian combatants on a war elephant. Phalera of the 3rd-2nd century BCE, Greco-Bactrian or Indo-Greek work, found in the Ural. Hermitage Museum, Russia. Click image for references.
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Greek and Indian combatants on a war elephant. Phalera of the 3rd-2nd century BCE, Greco-Bactrian or Indo-Greek work, found in the Ural. Hermitage Museum, Russia. Click image for references.

A phalera is usually a piece of horse harness in a disk shape, used to cover the corners of a horse's mouth. In antiquity, phaleras used to be highly decorative.

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