四足动物装饰的杯子 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	四足动物装饰的杯子
品名（英）	Goblet decorated with quadrupeds
入馆年号	1955年，55.60.2
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 4000 - 公元前 3000
创作地区
分类
尺寸	高: 6.75 英寸 (17.15 厘米); Diameter of rim: 6.25 英寸 (15.88 厘米); Diameter of base: 3.63 英寸 (9.22 厘米)
介绍（中）	这只高脚杯底座平坦，两侧平直，边缘外翻。它是由浅黄色粘土制成的，上面有棕色的装饰，包括十字线和棋盘图案。这些装饰还包括一只动物，它有着风格化的身体、长长的脖子、下垂的尾巴和延伸到边缘的新月形耳朵。内部的轮子线条表明它是在陶工的轮子上制作的这个烧杯的形状和装饰类似于在伊朗中部卡山附近的Tepe Sialk挖掘的器皿，尽管这种动物的角的不同寻常的形状没有确切的相似之处。Sialk遗址分布在两个土堆上。北部的土堆大约在公元前6000年至4000年有人居住，南部的土堆发现了类似的陶器，从公元前4000年到公元前2500年，该遗址被遗弃了近千年烧杯中的动物，可能是某种犬科动物，无法识别任何特定物种。毫无疑问，这是故意的。这个烧杯的制作者并没有描绘出它出现时的自然世界，而是以抽象的方式描绘了这种生物，也许是为了强调它在当地信仰中的某些方面的作用——这些信仰在今天已经为我们所失去。
介绍（英）	This goblet has a flat base, straight sides, and an everted rim. It is made of buff clay, with painted brown decorations, including crosshatching and checkerboard patterns. These decorations also feature an animal with a stylized body, a long neck, a drooping tail, and crescent-shaped ears that extend to the rim. Wheel lines on the interior indicate that it was made on a potter’s wheel. The shape and decoration of this beaker resembles that of vessels excavated at Tepe Sialk, near Kashan in central Iran, though there are no exact parallels for the unusual shape of the animal’s horns. The site of Sialk is spread over two mounds. The northern mound was inhabited from ca. 6000 to 4000 B.C., and the southern mound, where similar pottery to this was found, from ca. 4000 B.C. until 2500 B.C., when the site abandoned for nearly a millennium. The animal on this beaker, possibly some sort of canine, cannot be identified with any specific species. No doubt this is intentional. Rather than illustrating the natural world as it appeared, the maker of this beaker depicts this creature in an abstract manner, perhaps to emphasize some aspect of its role in local beliefs – beliefs which are lost to us in the present day.