手柄 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	手柄
品名（英）	Handle
入馆年号	1969年，69.24.41
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 700 - 公元前 600
创作地区
分类
尺寸	0.98 x 1.85 x 2.95 英寸 (2.49 x 4.7 x 7.49 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个带有环形手柄的陶瓷舍架最初可能是罐子的一部分。它是在Tepe Nush-i Jan挖掘的，这是一个铁器时代的山顶遗址，位于伊朗西部哈马丹约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米底人，一个从亚述，阿契美尼德和圣经资料中知道的伊朗人。尽管文本资料将他们描绘成一个强大的帝国，但米底人的考古证据尚未支持这种印象。相反，他们似乎生活在伊朗西部和中部分散的防御工事中，没有任何明确的首都。Nush-i Jan是这些遗址中最著名的之一，拥有两座寺庙，一个圆柱形大厅和一个堡垒。这个手柄是在中央寺庙附近发现的，中央寺庙是一座位于遗址中间的塔状建筑。该发现的确切背景尚不清楚，因此无法说这艘船是用于仪式还是实际目的，或两者兼而有之。
介绍（英）	This ceramic sherd with a loop handle was probably originally part of a jar. It 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.