耳环 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	耳环
品名（英）	Earring
入馆年号	1978年，1978.93.60
策展部门	古代近东艺术（Ancient Near Eastern Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 1
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尺寸	1.46 英寸 (3.71 厘米)
介绍（中）	这是一个青铜环形耳环，上面悬挂着一个现已严重腐蚀的吊坠。它是在伊朗北部的Shahr-i Qumis发掘的，该地被确定为赫卡托普洛斯古城，约公元前200年帕提亚人将其作为首都建立。在希腊语中，赫卡托克洛斯的意思是"一百扇门"，这表明这座城市相当大。事实上，现代考古遗址包括几个土堆，其中只有几个被挖掘出来，还有一大片被碎片覆盖的区域。它来自十三号遗址，这是一座后来故意用泥土填充的大型建筑，也许是为了建造一个葬礼结构 1967年，英国波斯研究所在Shahr-i Qumis的发掘工作得到了大都会艺术博物馆的共同赞助。然而，这只耳环直到1971年才被发现，它是英国大都会博物馆为该研究所在伊朗另一个遗址Tepe Nush-i Jan的发掘工作提供资金后从英国研究所获得的。当时，伊朗政府允许外国挖掘机保留一部分发现物，而这些挖掘机反过来会将其份额分配给支持这项工作的机构。
介绍（英）	This is a bronze loop earring with a pendant, now heavily corroded, suspended from it. It was excavated at Shahr-i Qumis in northern Iran, which has been identified as the ancient city of Hecatompylos, established by the Parthians as their capital by about 200 B.C. In Greek Hecatompylos means ‘a hundred gates,’ suggesting that the city was quite large. Indeed, the modern archaeological site includes several mounds, only a few of which have been excavated, and a vast area covered with potsherds. It comes from Site XIII, a large building that was later deliberately filled with dirt, perhaps in order to create a funerary structure. The excavations at Shahr-i Qumis by the British Institute of Persian Studies in 1967 were co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. However, this earring was not discovered until 1971, and it was acquired from the British Institute as a result of the Met’s financial contributions to the Institute’s excavations at Tepe Nush-i Jan, another site in Iran. At the time the Iranian government allowed foreign excavators to keep a portion of the finds, and these excavators in turn would divide their share among the institutions that supported the work.