Stirrup
The stirrup is a ring with a flat bottom fixed on a leather strap, usually hung from each side of a saddle to create a footrest for the rider on a riding animal (usually a horse or a mule), suspended by an adjustable strap from the saddle for use as a support for the foot of a rider of a horse when seated in the saddle and as an aid in getting up.
Stirrup Media
A modern working stirrup on an endurance riding saddle
Typical metal stirrup used in English riding
Depiction of a Kushan divinity using an early platform-style stirrup, circa AD 150; British Museum
A funerary figurine with a mounting stirrup, dated AD 302, unearthed near Changsha
The earliest extant double stirrup, from the tomb of Feng Sufu, a Han Chinese nobleman from the Northern Yan dynasty, 415 AD, discovered in Beipiao, Liaoning
Roman emperor Basil I the Macedonian and his son Leo on horses with stirrups (from the Madrid Skylitzes, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid)
10th century stirrup found in England
Stirrups used in equestrianism
Han dynasty mounting stirrup
Han iron stirrup.
