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品名（中）	手柄
品名（英）	Handle
入馆年号	1969年，69.24.16
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 600 - 公元前 500
创作地区
分类
尺寸	1.46 x 2.05 英寸 (3.71 x 5.21 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个把手曾经是一个陶器的一部分。它是鸭头的形状，脖子和喙连接在船边缘的残骸上。这只鸭子有一只圆眼睛，原来是镶嵌的。它是由红粘土制成的，上面装饰着一块深红色的纸条手柄是在Tepe Nush-i Jan发掘的，这是一个铁器时代的山顶遗址，位于伊朗西部哈马丹以东约60公里处。Nush-i Jan在公元前7世纪和6世纪被占领，其居住者通常被认为是Medes人，一个从亚述、阿契美尼德和《圣经》中了解到的伊朗人。尽管文本来源将他们描绘成一个强大的帝国，但梅代人的考古证据尚未维持这种印象。相反，他们似乎生活在伊朗西部和中部分散的设防地点，没有任何明确的首都。Nush-i Jan是其中最著名的遗址之一，拥有两座寺庙、一座圆柱大厅和一座堡垒。这个把手是在中央神庙附近发现的，中央神庙是一座塔式建筑，位于遗址中央。这一发现的确切背景尚不清楚，因此无法确定这艘船是用于仪式还是实际用途，或者两者兼而有之。
介绍（英）	This handle was once part of a pottery vessel. It is in the form of a duck’s head, with the neck and beak attached to the remains of the vessel’s rim. The duck has a round eye, which was originally inlaid. It is made of red clay and decorated with a dark red slip. The handle was excavated at Tepe Nush-i Jan, an Iron Age hilltop site about 60 km sound of Hamadan in western Iran. Nush-i Jan was occupied in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C., and its occupants are generally thought to be the Medes, an Iranian people known from Assyrian, Achaemenid and Biblical sources. Though the textual sources portray them as a powerful empire, archaeological evidence for the Medes has yet to sustain this impression. Rather, they seem to have lived in scattered fortified sites in western and central Iran, without any clear capital. Nush-i Jan, one of the best known of these sites, features two temples, a columned hall, and a fort. This handle was found near the Central Temple, a tower-like building located in the middle of the site. The precise context of the find is unclear, so it is impossible to say whether this vessel served a ritual or a practical purpose, or both.