杯子 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	杯子
品名（英）	Cup
入馆年号	1948年，48.98.16
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 905 - 公元前 700
创作地区
分类
尺寸	2.2 英寸 (5.59 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个杯子的形状像一个现代茶杯。它有圆形的侧面和环上的凹形底座。带有拇指卡舌的环形手柄连接到一侧的身体上。杯子由灰色粘土制成，并经过抛光处理。内部的轮子线表明它是在陶轮上制作的。这个杯子是在伊朗中部卡尚附近的Tepe Sialk出土的。锡亚尔克是一个设防城镇的所在地，建于公元前一千年早期。距离城镇几百码的地方有一个大墓地，考古学家在1933年至1937年间对其进行了探索，将其称为墓地B。坟墓是覆盖着石头或粘土制成的斜屋顶的坑，除了死者的尸体外，它们还包含珠宝，武器，皮甲，马饰和陶瓷器皿，包括其他类似的杯子。它的小尺寸和手柄表明它可以用于热液体，但这无法证明。在被放入坟墓之前，它可能被用于葬礼宴会或仪式;无论如何，它在墓地的埋葬表明，在铁器时代，饮酒是生与死的重要组成部分。
介绍（英）	This cup is shaped like a modern teacup. It has rounded sides and a concave base on a ring. A loop handle with a tab for the thumb is attached to the body on one side. The cup is made of grey clay and has been burnished. Wheel lines on the interior indicate that it was made on a potter’s wheel. This cup was excavated at Tepe Sialk, near Kashan in central Iran. Sialk was the site of a fortified town, constructed in the early first millennium B.C. Several hundred yards from the town there was a large cemetery, called Necropolis B by the archaeologists who explored it between 1933 and 1937. The graves were pits covered with pitched roofs made of stone or clay, and in addition to the bodies of the dead they contained jewelry, weapons, leather armor, horse trappings and ceramic vessels, including other similar cups. Its small size and handle suggest it could have been used for a hot liquid, but this cannot be proven. Possibly it was used in a funerary banquet or ritual before it was placed in the grave; regardless, its burial in the cemetery shows that drinking was an important part of life and death in Iron Age Sialk.