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品名（中）	小罐子
品名（英）	Small jar
入馆年号	1974年，1974.105.7
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	2.6 英寸 (6.6 厘米)
介绍（中）	这个罐子有一个平坦的底座，腹部有一个脊，边缘向外弯曲。它是用陶工的轮子用红粘土做成的。它是在Tepe Nush-i Jan发掘的，这是一个位于伊朗西部哈马丹以东约60公里的铁器时代山顶遗址。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。这个罐子是在一个被确认为"擅自占用者的水平面"发现的考古学家使用"蹲"一词来指遗址或结构被遗弃后不久的重新占用。在这种情况下，"擅自占用者"似乎是Medes，也许将其视为空间的重新配置而不是蹲着更有用。一些政治变革可能导致不再需要当地统治者用来容纳观众的圆柱大厅。
介绍（英）	This jar has a flat base, a ridge around its belly, and an outturned rim. It is made of a red clay, using a potter’s wheel. 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. The jar was found in what has been identified as a ‘squatter’s level.’ Archaeologists use the term ‘squatting’ to refer to the re-occupation of a site or structure shortly after its abandonment. In this case the ‘squatters’ appear to be Medes, and it perhaps more useful to think of this as a reconfiguration of space rather than squatting. Some political change may have resulted in the columned hall, where the local ruler would have held audiences, no longer being necessary.